diff --git a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
index 985abb7b2d..afe9265545 100644
--- a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
+++ b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
@@ -417,7 +417,26 @@ print_deployments (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
           if (!rpmostree_refspec_classify (origin_refspec, &refspectype, &refspec_data, error))
             return FALSE;
           g_autofree char *canonrefspec = rpmostree_refspec_to_string (refspectype, refspec_data);
-          g_print ("%s", canonrefspec);
+          switch (refspectype)
+            {
+            case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_OSTREE:
+              {
+                g_print ("%s", canonrefspec);
+              }
+              break;
+            case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_ROJIG:
+              {
+                const char *jigdo_description = NULL;
+                g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "jigdo-description", "&s", &jigdo_description);
+                if (jigdo_description)
+                  g_print ("%s", jigdo_description);
+                else
+                  {
+                    g_print ("%s", canonrefspec);
+                  }
+              }
+              break;
+            }
         }
       else
         g_print ("%s", checksum);
@@ -451,7 +470,15 @@ print_deployments (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
         g_assert (g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "timestamp", "t", &t));
       timestamp_string = rpmostree_timestamp_str_from_unix_utc (t);
 
-      rpmostree_print_timestamp_version (version_string, timestamp_string, max_key_len);
+      switch (refspectype)
+        {
+        case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_OSTREE:
+          rpmostree_print_timestamp_version (version_string, timestamp_string, max_key_len);
+          break;
+        case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_ROJIG:
+          rpmostree_print_kv ("Timestamp", max_key_len, timestamp_string);
+          break;
+        }
 
       if (!g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "live-inprogress", "&s", &live_inprogress))
         live_inprogress = NULL;
@@ -459,7 +486,9 @@ print_deployments (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
         live_replaced = NULL;
       const gboolean have_live_changes = live_inprogress || live_replaced;
 
-      if (is_locally_assembled)
+      const gboolean is_ostree_or_verbose = opt_verbose || refspectype == RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_OSTREE;
+
+      if (is_locally_assembled && is_ostree_or_verbose)
         {
           if (have_live_changes)
             rpmostree_print_kv ("BootedBaseCommit", max_key_len, base_checksum);
@@ -468,7 +497,7 @@ print_deployments (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
           if (opt_verbose || have_any_live_overlay)
             rpmostree_print_kv ("Commit", max_key_len, checksum);
         }
-      else
+      else if (is_ostree_or_verbose)
         {
           if (have_live_changes)
             rpmostree_print_kv ("BootedCommit", max_key_len, checksum);
diff --git a/src/daemon/rpmostree-sysroot-upgrader.c b/src/daemon/rpmostree-sysroot-upgrader.c
index b6b62690f3..edf5c79914 100644
--- a/src/daemon/rpmostree-sysroot-upgrader.c
+++ b/src/daemon/rpmostree-sysroot-upgrader.c
@@ -471,10 +471,14 @@ rpmostree_sysroot_upgrader_pull_base (RpmOstreeSysrootUpgrader  *self,
         /* We're also "pure" rpm-ostree jigdo - this adds assertions that we don't depsolve for example */
         if (!rpmostree_context_prepare_jigdo (ctx, cancellable, error))
           return FALSE;
+        DnfPackage *jigdo_pkg = rpmostree_context_get_jigdo_pkg (ctx);
         new_base_rev = g_strdup (rpmostree_context_get_jigdo_checksum (ctx));
         gboolean jigdo_changed;  /* Currently unused */
         if (!rpmostree_context_execute_jigdo (ctx, &jigdo_changed, cancellable, error))
           return FALSE;
+
+        if (jigdo_changed)
+          rpmostree_origin_set_jigdo_description (self->origin, jigdo_pkg);
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c b/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
index 38b438f998..85e777d70f 100644
--- a/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
+++ b/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
@@ -301,28 +301,40 @@ rpmostreed_deployment_generate_variant (OstreeSysroot *sysroot,
 
   gboolean gpg_enabled = FALSE;
   g_autoptr(GVariant) sigs = NULL;
-  if (refspec_type == RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_OSTREE)
+  switch (refspec_type)
     {
-      if (!rpmostreed_deployment_gpg_results (repo, refspec, base_checksum, &sigs, &gpg_enabled, error))
-        return NULL;
+    case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_OSTREE:
+      {
+        if (!rpmostreed_deployment_gpg_results (repo, refspec, base_checksum, &sigs, &gpg_enabled, error))
+          return NULL;
 
-      g_autofree char *pending_base_commitrev = NULL;
-      if (!ostree_repo_resolve_rev (repo, refspec, TRUE,
-                                    &pending_base_commitrev, error))
-        return NULL;
+        g_autofree char *pending_base_commitrev = NULL;
+        if (!ostree_repo_resolve_rev (repo, refspec, TRUE,
+                                      &pending_base_commitrev, error))
+          return NULL;
 
-      if (pending_base_commitrev && !g_str_equal (pending_base_commitrev, base_checksum))
-        {
-          g_autoptr(GVariant) pending_base_commit = NULL;
+        if (pending_base_commitrev && !g_str_equal (pending_base_commitrev, base_checksum))
+          {
+            g_autoptr(GVariant) pending_base_commit = NULL;
 
-          if (!ostree_repo_load_variant (repo, OSTREE_OBJECT_TYPE_COMMIT,
-                                         pending_base_commitrev, &pending_base_commit,
-                                         error))
-            return NULL;
+            if (!ostree_repo_load_variant (repo, OSTREE_OBJECT_TYPE_COMMIT,
+                                           pending_base_commitrev, &pending_base_commit,
+                                           error))
+              return NULL;
 
-          g_variant_dict_insert (&dict, "pending-base-checksum", "s", pending_base_commitrev);
-          variant_add_commit_details (&dict, "pending-base-", pending_base_commit);
-        }
+            g_variant_dict_insert (&dict, "pending-base-checksum", "s", pending_base_commitrev);
+            variant_add_commit_details (&dict, "pending-base-", pending_base_commit);
+          }
+      }
+      break;
+    case RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_ROJIG:
+      {
+        const char *jigdo_description = rpmostree_origin_get_jigdo_description (origin);
+        /* For backwards compat allow it to not exist */
+        if (jigdo_description)
+          g_variant_dict_insert (&dict, "jigdo-description", "s", jigdo_description);
+      }
+      break;
     }
 
   g_autofree char *live_inprogress = NULL;
diff --git a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.c b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.c
index 764df615aa..57fd437a32 100644
--- a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.c
+++ b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ struct RpmOstreeOrigin {
   /* Version data that goes along with the refspec */
   char *cached_override_commit;
   char *cached_jigdo_version;
+  /* The NEVRA of the jigdoRPM */
+  char *cached_jigdo_description;
 
   char *cached_unconfigured_state;
   char **cached_initramfs_args;
@@ -141,6 +143,7 @@ rpmostree_origin_parse_keyfile (GKeyFile         *origin,
       ret->refspec_type = RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_ROJIG;
       ret->cached_refspec = g_steal_pointer (&jigdo_spec);
       ret->cached_jigdo_version = g_key_file_get_string (ret->kf, "origin", "jigdo-version", NULL);
+      ret->cached_jigdo_description = g_key_file_get_string (ret->kf, "origin", "jigdo-description", NULL);
     }
 
   if (!parse_packages_strv (ret->kf, "packages", "requested", FALSE,
@@ -214,6 +217,12 @@ rpmostree_origin_get_jigdo_version (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin)
   return origin->cached_jigdo_version;
 }
 
+const char *
+rpmostree_origin_get_jigdo_description (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin)
+{
+  return origin->cached_jigdo_description;
+}
+
 GHashTable *
 rpmostree_origin_get_packages (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin)
 {
@@ -388,6 +397,32 @@ rpmostree_origin_set_override_commit (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
   origin->cached_override_commit = g_strdup (checksum);
 }
 
+/* The jigdoRPM is highly special; it doesn't live in the rpmdb for example, as
+ * that would be fully circular. Yet, it's of critical importance to the whole
+ * system; we want to render it on the client. For now, what we do is stick the
+ * NEVRA in the origin. That's the only data we really care about.
+ *
+ * Since the data we really want is repo + NEVRA, we parse the refspec and
+ * concatenate those here for convenience of callers.
+ *
+ * Perhaps down the line, what we really want to do is store the whole Header at
+ * least somewhere hooked off the deployment (or perhaps imported itself into
+ * the pkgcache)?
+ */
+void
+rpmostree_origin_set_jigdo_description (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
+                                        DnfPackage      *package)
+{
+  g_assert_cmpint (origin->refspec_type, ==, RPMOSTREE_REFSPEC_TYPE_ROJIG);
+  const char *colon = strchr (origin->cached_refspec, ':');
+  g_assert (colon);
+  const char *repo = strndupa (origin->cached_refspec, colon - origin->cached_refspec);
+  const char *nevra = dnf_package_get_nevra (package);
+  g_free (origin->cached_jigdo_description);
+  origin->cached_jigdo_description = g_strconcat (repo, ":", nevra, NULL);
+  g_key_file_set_string (origin->kf, "origin", "jigdo-description", origin->cached_jigdo_description);
+}
+
 gboolean
 rpmostree_origin_set_rebase (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
                              const char      *new_refspec,
diff --git a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.h b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.h
index c09e3359da..5de33b22fb 100644
--- a/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.h
+++ b/src/libpriv/rpmostree-origin.h
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ rpmostree_origin_get_full_refspec (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
 const char *
 rpmostree_origin_get_jigdo_version (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin);
 
+const char *
+rpmostree_origin_get_jigdo_description (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin);
+
 GHashTable *
 rpmostree_origin_get_packages (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin);
 
@@ -116,6 +119,9 @@ void
 rpmostree_origin_set_override_commit (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
                                       const char      *checksum,
                                       const char      *version);
+void
+rpmostree_origin_set_jigdo_description (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,
+                                        DnfPackage      *package);
 
 gboolean
 rpmostree_origin_set_rebase (RpmOstreeOrigin *origin,