--- /usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py	2017-05-09 20:52:52.614757393 +0200
+++ /usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py	2017-03-01 16:03:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -4539,17 +4539,6 @@
 			mode='w', encoding=_encodings['repo.content'],
 			errors='backslashreplace')
 
-
-		# open INTEGRITY file (possibly overwriting old one) for recording
-		# Use atomic_ofstream for automatic coercion of raw bytes to
-		# unicode, in order to prevent TypeError when writing raw bytes
-		# to TextIOWrapper with python2.
-		intfile = atomic_ofstream(_unicode_encode(
-			os.path.join(self.dbtmpdir, 'INTEGRITY'),
-			encoding=_encodings['fs'], errors='strict'),
-			mode='w', encoding=_encodings['repo.content'],
-			errors='backslashreplace')
-
 		# Don't bump mtimes on merge since some application require
 		# preservation of timestamps.  This means that the unmerge phase must
 		# check to see if file belongs to an installed instance in the same
@@ -4562,7 +4551,7 @@
 
 		# we do a first merge; this will recurse through all files in our srcroot but also build up a
 		# "second hand" of symlinks to merge later
-		if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, intfile, secondhand,
+		if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, secondhand,
 			self.settings["EPREFIX"].lstrip(os.sep), cfgfiledict, mymtime):
 			return 1
 
@@ -4574,7 +4563,7 @@
 			# couldn't get merged will be added to thirdhand.
 
 			thirdhand = []
-			if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, intfile, thirdhand,
+			if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, thirdhand,
 				secondhand, cfgfiledict, mymtime):
 				return 1
 
@@ -4588,7 +4577,7 @@
 
 		if len(secondhand):
 			# force merge of remaining symlinks (broken or circular; oh well)
-			if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, intfile, None,
+			if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, None,
 				secondhand, cfgfiledict, mymtime):
 				return 1
 
@@ -4599,10 +4588,6 @@
 		outfile.flush()
 		outfile.close()
 
-		#if we opened it, close it
-		intfile.flush()
-		intfile.close()
-
 		# write out our collection of md5sums
 		if cfgfiledict != cfgfiledict_orig:
 			cfgfiledict.pop("IGNORE", None)
@@ -4614,7 +4599,7 @@
 
 		return os.EX_OK
 
-	def mergeme(self, srcroot, destroot, outfile, intfile, secondhand, stufftomerge, cfgfiledict, thismtime):
+	def mergeme(self, srcroot, destroot, outfile, secondhand, stufftomerge, cfgfiledict, thismtime):
 		"""
 
 		This function handles actual merging of the package contents to the livefs.
@@ -4626,8 +4611,6 @@
 		@type destroot: String (Path)
 		@param outfile: File to log operations to
 		@type outfile: File Object
-		@param intfile: File to log integrity info to
-		@type intfile: File Object
 		@param secondhand: A set of items to merge in pass two (usually
 		or symlinks that point to non-existing files that may get merged later)
 		@type secondhand: List
@@ -4766,26 +4749,6 @@
 				# confmem rejected this update
 				zing = "---"
 
-			srcobj = srcroot+relative_path
-			destobj = os.path.realpath(destroot+relative_path)
-			hashtype = self.settings["INTEGRITY_HASH"]
-
-			line = ""
-			if stat.S_ISREG(mymode):
-				line = "mode:"+oct(mymode)[-4:]+" "
-				if hashtype.lower() == "sha1" or hashtype.lower() == "sha256" or hashtype.lower() == "sha512":
-					line += hashtype.lower()+":"+portage.checksum.perform_checksum(srcobj, hashtype.upper(), 0)[0]+" "
-				line += "file:"+destobj+"\n"
-			elif stat.S_ISDIR(mymode):
-				if not os.path.exists(destobj):
-					line = "mode:"+oct(mymode)[-4:]+" "
-					line += "file:"+destobj+"\n"
-			else: #LINK, FIFO, DEV
-				line = "mode:"+oct(mymode)[-4:]+" "
-				line += "file:"+destobj+"\n"
-
-			intfile.write(line)
-
 			if stat.S_ISLNK(mymode):
 				# we are merging a symbolic link
 				# Pass in the symlink target in order to bypass the