For some recipes (llvm, chromium, chromium-wayland) I've noticed this function to fail with:

ERROR: llvm3.3-3.3-r0 do_unpack: Error executing a python function in exec_python_func() autogenerated:

The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: 'exec_python_func() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
     0001:
 *** 0002:base_do_unpack(d)
     0003:
File: '/home/jenkins/oe/world/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass', lineno: 215, function: base_do_unpack
     0211:
     0212:    try:
     0213:        fetcher = bb.fetch2.Fetch(src_uri, d)
     0214:        fetcher.unpack(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
 *** 0215:        create_src_date_epoch_stamp(d)
     0216:    except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException as e:
     0217:        bb.fatal(str(e))
     0218:}
     0219:
File: '/home/jenkins/oe/world/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass', lineno: 34, function: create_src_date_epoch_stamp
     0030:            exclude = set(["temp", "licenses", "patches", "recipe-sysroot-native", "recipe-sysroot" ])
     0031:            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=True):
     0032:                dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d not in exclude]
     0033:                if root.endswith('/git'):
 *** 0034:                    src_date_epoch = get_git_src_date_epoch(d, root)
     0035:                    break
     0036:
     0037:                for fname in files:
     0038:                    filename = os.path.join(root, fname)
File: '/home/jenkins/oe/world/shr-core/openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass', lineno: 17, function: get_git_src_date_epoch
     0013:def get_git_src_date_epoch(d, path):
     0014:    import subprocess
     0015:    saved_cwd = os.getcwd()
     0016:    os.chdir(path)
 *** 0017:    src_date_epoch = int(subprocess.check_output(['git','log','-1','--pretty=%ct']))
     0018:    os.chdir(saved_cwd)
     0019:    return src_date_epoch
     0020:
     0021:def create_src_date_epoch_stamp(d):
File: '/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py', lineno: 626, function: check_output
     0622:        # empty string. That is maintained here for backwards compatibility.
     0623:        kwargs['input'] = '' if kwargs.get('universal_newlines', False) else b''
     0624:
     0625:    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
 *** 0626:               **kwargs).stdout
     0627:
     0628:
     0629:class CompletedProcess(object):
     0630:    """A process that has finished running.
File: '/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py', lineno: 708, function: run
     0704:            raise
     0705:        retcode = process.poll()
     0706:        if check and retcode:
     0707:            raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
 *** 0708:                                     output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
     0709:    return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
     0710:
     0711:
     0712:def list2cmdline(seq):
Exception: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'log', '-1', '--pretty=%ct']' returned non-zero exit status 128

ERROR: llvm3.3-3.3-r0 do_unpack: Function failed: base_do_unpack
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/jenkins/oe/world/shr-core/tmp-glibc/work/i586-oe-linux/llvm3.3/3.3-r0/temp/log.do_unpack.25005
NOTE: recipe llvm3.3-3.3-r0: task do_unpack: Failed
ERROR: Task (/home/jenkins/oe/world/shr-core/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-core/llvm/llvm3.3_3.3.bb:do_unpack) failed with exit code '1'

Maybe I don't have the latest version of this patch (I'm not using your poky-contrib branch yet), but it should fail with nicer message when git log fails for whatever reason.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky@intel.com> wrote:
Conditionally set some environment variables in order to achieve
improved binary reproducibility. Providing BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES is
set to "1", we set the following environment variables:

export PYTHONHASHSEED=0
export PERL_HASH_SEED=0
export TZ="UTC"

We also export and set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. The value for this variable
is obtained after source code for a recipe has been unpacked, but before it is
patched. If the code comes from a GIT repo, we get the timestamp from the top
commit. (This usually corresponds to the mktime of "changelog".)
Otherwise we go through all files and get the timestamp from the youngest
one. We create a timestamp for each recipe. The timestamp is stored in the file
'src_date_epoch.txt'. Later on, each task reads this file and sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
based on the value found in the file.

[YOCTO#11178]
[YOCTO#11179]

Signed-off-by: Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky@intel.com>
---
 meta/classes/base.bbclass | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index e29821f..f2b2d97 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -10,6 +10,52 @@ inherit utility-tasks
 inherit metadata_scm
 inherit logging

+def get_git_src_date_epoch(d, path):
+    import subprocess
+    saved_cwd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(path)
+    src_date_epoch = int(subprocess.check_output(['git','log','-1','--pretty=%ct']))
+    os.chdir(saved_cwd)
+    return src_date_epoch
+
+def create_src_date_epoch_stamp(d):
+    if d.getVar('BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES') == '1':
+        path = d.getVar('S')
+        src_date_epoch = 0
+        filename_dbg = None
+
+        if path.endswith('/git'):
+            src_date_epoch = get_git_src_date_epoch(d, path)
+        else:
+            exclude = set(["temp", "licenses", "patches", "recipe-sysroot-native", "recipe-sysroot" ])
+            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=True):
+                dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if d not in exclude]
+                if root.endswith('/git'):
+                    src_date_epoch = get_git_src_date_epoch(d, root)
+                    break
+
+                for fname in files:
+                    filename = os.path.join(root, fname)
+                    try:
+                        mtime = int(os.path.getmtime(filename))
+                    except:
+                        mtime = 0
+                    if mtime > src_date_epoch:
+                        src_date_epoch = mtime
+                        filename_dbg = filename
+
+        # Most likely an empty folder
+        if src_date_epoch == 0:
+            bb.warn("Unable to determine src_date_epoch! path:%s" % path)
+
+        f = open(os.path.join(path,'src_date_epoch.txt'), 'w')
+        f.write(str(src_date_epoch))
+        f.close()
+
+        if filename_dbg != None:
+            bb.debug(1," src_date_epoch %d derived from: %s" % (src_date_epoch, filename_dbg))
+
+
 OE_IMPORTS += "os sys time oe.path oe.utils oe.types oe.package oe.packagegroup oe.sstatesig oe.lsb oe.cachedpath oe.license"
 OE_IMPORTS[type] = "list"

@@ -173,6 +219,7 @@ python base_do_unpack() {
     try:
         fetcher = bb.fetch2.Fetch(src_uri, d)
         fetcher.unpack(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
+        create_src_date_epoch_stamp(d)
     except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException as e:
         bb.fatal(str(e))
 }
@@ -383,9 +430,43 @@ def set_packagetriplet(d):

     settriplet(d, "PKGMLTRIPLETS", archs, tos, tvs)

+
+export PYTHONHASHSEED
+export PERL_HASH_SEED
+export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+
+BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST += "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH PYTHONHASHSEED PERL_HASH_SEED "
+
 python () {
     import string, re

+    # Create reproducible_environment
+
+    if d.getVar('BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES') == '1':
+        import subprocess
+        d.setVar('PYTHONHASHSEED', '0')
+        d.setVar('PERL_HASH_SEED', '0')
+        d.setVar('TZ', 'UTC')
+
+        path = d.getVar('S')
+        epochfile = os.path.join(path,'src_date_epoch.txt')
+        if os.path.isfile(epochfile):
+            f = open(epochfile, 'r')
+            src_date_epoch = f.read()
+            f.close()
+            bb.debug(1, "src_date_epoch stamp found ---> stamp %s" % src_date_epoch)
+            d.setVar('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', src_date_epoch)
+        else:
+            bb.debug(1, "src_date_epoch stamp not found.")
+            d.setVar('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', '0')
+    else:
+        if 'PYTHONHASHSEED' in os.environ:
+            del os.environ['PYTHONHASHSEED']
+        if 'PERL_HASH_SEED' in os.environ:
+            del os.environ['PERL_HASH_SEED']
+        if 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' in os.environ:
+            del os.environ['SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH']
+
     # Handle PACKAGECONFIG
     #
     # These take the form:
@@ -678,6 +759,7 @@ python () {
             bb.warn("Recipe %s is marked as only being architecture specific but seems to have machine specific packages?! The recipe may as well mark itself as machine specific directly." % d.getVar("PN"))
 }

+
 addtask cleansstate after do_clean
 python do_cleansstate() {
         sstate_clean_cachefiles(d)
--
2.7.4