diff --git a/src/cmd-koji-upload b/src/cmd-koji-upload
index 495af86fa1..0543d45c7f 100755
--- a/src/cmd-koji-upload
+++ b/src/cmd-koji-upload
@@ -202,15 +202,13 @@ class Build(_Build):
         if host is None:
             rpms = self.commit["rpmostree.rpmdb.pkglist"]
         else:
-            host_rpms = subprocess.check_output('rpm -qa --qf="%{NAME}:%{EPOCH}:%{RELEASE}:%{VERSION}:%{ARCH}:%{SIGMD5}:%{SIGPGP} \n"', shell=True).strip()
-            rpms = (host_rpms.decode('utf-8')).split("\n")
-
+            rpms = self.config["pkglist"]
         for rpm in rpms:
             if host is None:
                 name, epoch, version, release, arch = rpm
-                sigmd5, sigpgp, epoch = None, None, None
+                sigmd5, sigpgp = None, None
             else:
-                name, epoch, release, version, arch, sigmd5, sigpgp = rpm.split(':')
+                name, epoch, version, release, arch, sigmd5, sigpgp  = rpm
             entry = {
                 "type": "rpm",
                 "name": name,
diff --git a/src/cmdlib.sh b/src/cmdlib.sh
index f3c6acc0df..c8a0880ccb 100755
--- a/src/cmdlib.sh
+++ b/src/cmdlib.sh
@@ -942,6 +942,12 @@ prepare_git_artifacts() {
 
     info "Directory ${gitd}, is from branch ${branch}, commit ${rev}"
 
+    pkglist=$(python3 -c "
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, '${DIR}')
+from cosalib import cmdlib
+print(cmdlib.create_cosa_rpm_list())")
+
     # shellcheck disable=SC2046 disable=SC2086
     cat > "${json}" <<EOC
 {
@@ -951,7 +957,8 @@ prepare_git_artifacts() {
         "origin": "${head_url}",
         "branch": "${branch}",
         "dirty": "${is_dirty}"
-    }
+    },
+    "pkglist": $pkglist
 }
 EOC
 
diff --git a/src/cosalib/cmdlib.py b/src/cosalib/cmdlib.py
index 53d711ccc0..334c5eafd7 100644
--- a/src/cosalib/cmdlib.py
+++ b/src/cosalib/cmdlib.py
@@ -451,3 +451,14 @@ def ensure_glob(pathname, **kwargs):
 def ncpu():
     '''Return the number of usable CPUs we have for parallelism.'''
     return int(subprocess.check_output(['kola', 'ncpu']))
+
+def create_cosa_rpm_list():
+
+    host_rpms = subprocess.check_output('rpm -qa --qf="%{NAME}:%{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}:%{RELEASE}:%{ARCH}:%{SIGMD5}:%{SIGPGP} \n"', shell=True).strip()
+    rpms = (host_rpms.decode('utf-8')).split("\n")
+    components = []
+    for rpm in rpms:
+        name, epoch, version, release, arch, sigmd5, sigpgp = rpm.split(':')
+        entry = [name, epoch, version, release, arch, sigmd5, sigpgp]
+        components.append(entry)
+    return json.dumps(components)