diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/fedora-mirror-update b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/fedora-mirror-update
index ec84e2f95d..ea689ac098 100755
--- a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/fedora-mirror-update
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/fedora-mirror-update
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ source /usr/share/mirror-update/functions.sh
 
 MIRROR_VOLUME=$1
 
-function echo_ts {
-    printf "%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T  | %s\n" -1 "$@"
-}
-
 if [[ ${NO_TIMEOUT:-0} -eq 1 ]]; then
     echo_ts "Running interactively"
     set -x
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/functions.sh b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/functions.sh
index 4213089ee1..2b9d7514d1 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/functions.sh
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/files/functions.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 AFS_SERVER=afs01.dfw.openstack.org
 VOS_RELEASE="ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_vos_release vos_release@${AFS_SERVER} vos release "
 
+function echo_ts {
+    printf "%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T  | %s\n" -1 "$@"
+}
+
 # Send a timer stat to statsd
 #  send_timer metric [start_time]
 # * uses timer metric afs.release.<$1> normalised for stats
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/main.yaml
index 234051b706..c0f743b6cb 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,28 @@
     env: yes
     value: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 
+- name: Create common function dir
+  file:
+    path: /usr/share/mirror-update
+    state: directory
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: '0755'
+
+- name: Copy in common functions
+  copy:
+    src: 'functions.sh'
+    dest: '/usr/share/mirror-update'
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: '0644'
+
+- name: Set cron flag to enable reporting stats
+  cron:
+    name: UNDER_CRON
+    env: yes
+    job: '1'
+
 - name: Setup log publisher script
   include_tasks: log_publish.yaml
 
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/rsync.yaml b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/rsync.yaml
index a91fc6a419..7db8f5a3da 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/rsync.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mirror-update/tasks/rsync.yaml
@@ -8,22 +8,6 @@
     group: root
     mode: '0755'
 
-- name: Create common function dir
-  file:
-    path: /usr/share/mirror-update
-    state: directory
-    owner: root
-    group: root
-    mode: '0755'
-
-- name: Copy in common functions
-  copy:
-    src: 'functions.sh'
-    dest: '/usr/share/mirror-update'
-    owner: root
-    group: root
-    mode: '0644'
-
 - name: Set update script names
   set_fact:
     rsync_update_scripts:
@@ -55,12 +39,6 @@
     mode: '0755'
   loop: '{{ rsync_update_scripts }}'
 
-- name: Set cron flag to enable reporting stats
-  cron:
-    name: UNDER_CRON
-    env: yes
-    job: '1'
-
 - name: Install update cron jobs
   cron:
     name: '{{ item }} mirror sync'
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/reprepro/files/reprepro-mirror-update b/playbooks/roles/reprepro/files/reprepro-mirror-update
index 31c3ee58ac..38385cb485 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/reprepro/files/reprepro-mirror-update
+++ b/playbooks/roles/reprepro/files/reprepro-mirror-update
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/bash -e
 
 # Copyright 2016 IBM Corp.
 #
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
 # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-set -e
+source /usr/share/mirror-update/functions.sh
 
 # For initial clones, and debugging, set this for more verbose output
 # that doesn't time out.
 if [[ ${NO_TIMEOUT:-0} -eq 1 ]]; then
-    echo "Running interactively"
+    echo_ts "Running interactively"
     TIMEOUT=""
     set -x
 else
@@ -35,28 +35,23 @@ UNREF_FILE=/var/run/reprepro/${MIRROR_VOLUME}.${CONFIG_KEY}.unreferenced-files
 K5START="k5start -t -f /etc/reprepro.keytab service/reprepro -- ${TIMEOUT} "
 REPREPRO="$K5START reprepro --confdir $REPREPRO_CONFIG"
 
-date --iso-8601=ns
-echo "Obtaining reprepro tokens and running reprepro update"
+echo_ts "Obtaining reprepro tokens and running reprepro update"
 $REPREPRO update
 
 if [ -f $UNREF_FILE ] ; then
-    date --iso-8601=ns
-    echo "Cleaning up files made unreferenced on the last run"
+    echo_ts "Cleaning up files made unreferenced on the last run"
     $REPREPRO deleteifunreferenced < $UNREF_FILE
 fi
 
-date --iso-8601=ns
-echo "Saving list of newly unreferenced files for next time"
+echo_ts "Saving list of newly unreferenced files for next time"
 k5start -t -f /etc/reprepro.keytab service/reprepro -- bash -c "reprepro --confdir $REPREPRO_CONFIG dumpunreferenced > $UNREF_FILE"
 
-date --iso-8601=ns
-echo "Checking state of mirror"
+echo_ts "Checking state of mirror"
 $REPREPRO checkpool fast
 $REPREPRO check
 
 date --iso-8601=ns | $K5START tee $BASE/timestamp.txt
-echo "reprepro completed successfully, running vos release."
-k5start -t -f /etc/afsadmin.keytab service/afsadmin -- vos release -v $MIRROR_VOLUME
+echo_ts "reprepro completed successfully, running vos release."
+vos_release $MIRROR_VOLUME
 
-date --iso-8601=ns
-echo "Done."
+echo_ts "Done."