diff --git a/jenkins/jobs/packaging-mirror.yaml b/jenkins/jobs/packaging-mirror.yaml
index b0c23a4aa2..2e0912ed8d 100644
--- a/jenkins/jobs/packaging-mirror.yaml
+++ b/jenkins/jobs/packaging-mirror.yaml
@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@
       - shell: |
           #!/bin/bash -xe
 
-          AFS_DIR=/afs/.openstack.org/mirror/deb-openstack
+          BASE=/afs/.openstack.org/mirror/deb-openstack
           BRANCH=$(echo $ZUUL_REFNAME | cut -d/ -f2)
           PACKAGE_DIR=$WORKSPACE/packages
           PROJECT=$(echo $ZUUL_PROJECT | cut -d/ -f2)
           URL=http://tarballs.openstack.org/packaging-deb/$PROJECT/uploads/$ZUUL_COMMIT
 
+          K5START="k5start -t -f /etc/packaging.keytab \
+              service/packaging \
+              -- timeout -k 2m 30m"
+
           # Build up which distribution we are using. Here we will be
           # converting:
           #   jessie-> jessie-newton
@@ -35,10 +39,7 @@
               --directory-prefix=$PACKAGE_DIR \
               $URL/
 
-          REPREPRO="k5start -t -f /etc/packaging.keytab \
-              service/packaging \
-              -- timeout -k 2m 30m \
-              reprepro --confdir /etc/reprepro/{reprepro}"
+          REPREPRO="$K5START reprepro --confdir /etc/reprepro/{reprepro}"
 
           # Get an afs token and import the packages to reprepro
           echo "Obtaining token and importing packages to reprepro"
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@
           echo "List all packages"
           $REPREPRO list $DISTRIBUTION
 
+          date --iso-8601=ns | $K5START tee $BASE/timestamp.txt
           echo "Done."
 
 - builder:
diff --git a/jenkins/scripts/reprepro-gpg-sign.sh b/jenkins/scripts/reprepro-gpg-sign.sh
index 0e047f2068..da952fcda7 100755
--- a/jenkins/scripts/reprepro-gpg-sign.sh
+++ b/jenkins/scripts/reprepro-gpg-sign.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # under the License.
 
 CODENAME=$1
-AFS_DIR=/afs/.openstack.org/mirror/debian-openstack
+BASE=/afs/.openstack.org/mirror/debian-openstack
 BRANCH=$(echo $ZUUL_REFNAME | cut -d/ -f2)
 K5START="k5start -t -f /etc/packaging.keytab \
     service/packaging \
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ if ! [ -z "${array[1]}" ]; then
     DISTRIBUTION+="-${array[1]}"
 fi
 
-cd $AFS_DIR/dists/$DISTRIBUTION
+cd $BASE/dists/$DISTRIBUTION
 
 $K5START gpg --armor --detach-sign --output Release.gpg Release
 $K5START gpg --armor --clearsign --output InRelease Release
+
+date --iso-8601=ns | $K5START tee $BASE/timestamp.txt