diff --git a/xorg-x11-fonts.changes b/xorg-x11-fonts.changes
index c0c756c..382dd11 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-fonts.changes
+++ b/xorg-x11-fonts.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jun  3 16:06:58 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- use wrapper script during build to call gzip -n 
+  to not add timestamps to .gz files to have fully reproducible builds
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 11 14:49:02 UTC 2014 - sndirsch@suse.com
 
diff --git a/xorg-x11-fonts.spec b/xorg-x11-fonts.spec
index cd46ed4..9eec1db 100644
--- a/xorg-x11-fonts.spec
+++ b/xorg-x11-fonts.spec
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_DIR/*
 for i in $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/*.tar.bz2; do tar xjf $i; done
 
 %build
+echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec /usr/bin/gzip -n -9 "$@"' > ../gzip ; chmod a+x ../gzip ; PATH=`pwd`/..:$PATH
 for dir in encodings-* $(ls | grep -v -e encodings -e alias) font-alias-* ; do
   pushd $dir
     case $dir in