2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass b/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
index d0842f0f90..153a076072 100644
--- a/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/reproducible_build_simple.bbclass
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ export PERL_HASH_SEED = "0"
 export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ??= "1520598896"
 
 REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS ??= "1520598896"
+BUILDNAME ??= "${REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS}"
 
 inherit podfix
diff --git a/meta/classes/rootfs-postcommands.bbclass b/meta/classes/rootfs-postcommands.bbclass
index 2f171836fa..e40097444d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/rootfs-postcommands.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/rootfs-postcommands.bbclass
@@ -356,11 +356,6 @@ python rootfs_log_check_recommends() {
 # Perform any additional adjustments needed to make rootf binary reproducible
 rootfs_reproducible () {
         if [ "${REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS}" != "" ]; then
-                # Convert UTC into %4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M%2S
-                sformatted=`date -u -d @${REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS} +%4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M%2S`
-                echo $sformatted > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/version
-                bbnote "rootfs_reproducible: set /etc/version to $sformatted"
-
                 if [ -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${sysconfdir}/gconf ]; then
                         find ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${sysconfdir}/gconf -name '%gconf.xml' -print0 | xargs -0r \
                         sed -i -e 's@\bmtime="[0-9][0-9]*"@mtime="'${REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS}'"@g'