diff --git a/redis.changes b/redis.changes
index 0d46b08..2a22b44 100644
--- a/redis.changes
+++ b/redis.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul 11 17:08:01 UTC 2018 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- Add reproducible.patch to have fixed hostname and date (boo#1047218)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun 15 10:17:06 UTC 2018 - mrueckert@suse.de
 
diff --git a/redis.spec b/redis.spec
index c8e4edd..138fc97 100644
--- a/redis.spec
+++ b/redis.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Patch0:         %{name}-initscript.patch
 Patch1:         %{name}-conf.patch
 Patch2:         %{name}-enable-bactrace-on-x86-ia64-and_arm32_only.patch
 Patch3:         %{name}-disable_integration_logging.patch
+Patch4:         reproducible.patch
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  procps
 BuildRequires:  tcl
@@ -64,8 +65,10 @@ different kind of sorting abilities.
 # We have no backtrace, so disable logging test
 %patch3 -p0
 %endif
+%patch4 -p1
 
 %build
+export HOST=OBS # for reproducible builds
 make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags}" V=1
 
 %install
diff --git a/reproducible.patch b/reproducible.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..858d2a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reproducible.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/4390
+
+From 8832af49fa1f4fdd8f9e152f013bb71b343d26dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de>
+Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 05:20:38 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Use RELEASENOTES date instead of build date
+
+in order to make builds reproducible.
+See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
+---
+ src/mkreleasehdr.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/mkreleasehdr.sh b/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
+index 1ae95886b4a..c48156cf3dd 100755
+--- a/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
++++ b/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ #!/bin/sh
+ GIT_SHA1=`(git show-ref --head --hash=8 2> /dev/null || echo 00000000) | head -n1`
+ GIT_DIRTY=`git diff --no-ext-diff 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
+-BUILD_ID=`uname -n`"-"`date +%s`
++BUILD_ID=`uname -n`"-"`date -r ../00-RELEASENOTES +%s`
+ test -f release.h || touch release.h
+ (cat release.h | grep SHA1 | grep $GIT_SHA1) && \
+ (cat release.h | grep DIRTY | grep $GIT_DIRTY) && exit 0 # Already up-to-date
+
+From 96c1ddd8ad5b6f0f437011efef090e837a41f8e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de>
+Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:52:06 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Allow to override hostname
+
+to make builds reproducible.
+---
+ src/mkreleasehdr.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/mkreleasehdr.sh b/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
+index c48156cf3dd..39cf37d3378 100755
+--- a/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
++++ b/src/mkreleasehdr.sh
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ #!/bin/sh
+ GIT_SHA1=`(git show-ref --head --hash=8 2> /dev/null || echo 00000000) | head -n1`
+ GIT_DIRTY=`git diff --no-ext-diff 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
+-BUILD_ID=`uname -n`"-"`date -r ../00-RELEASENOTES +%s`
++BUILD_ID=${HOST:-`uname -n`}"-"`date -r ../00-RELEASENOTES +%s`
+ test -f release.h || touch release.h
+ (cat release.h | grep SHA1 | grep $GIT_SHA1) && \
+ (cat release.h | grep DIRTY | grep $GIT_DIRTY) && exit 0 # Already up-to-date