diff --git a/helpers/create-abi-dump.py b/helpers/create-abi-dump.py
--- a/helpers/create-abi-dump.py
+++ b/helpers/create-abi-dump.py
@@ -275,6 +275,16 @@
 # Initialize the archive manager
 ourArchive = Packages.Archive(arguments.environment, 'ABIReference', usingCache = False)
 
+# Determine which SCM revision we are storing
+# This will be embedded into the package metadata which might help someone doing some debugging
+# GIT_COMMIT is set by Jenkins Git plugin, so we can rely on that for most of our builds
+scmRevision = ''
+if os.getenv('GIT_COMMIT') != '':
+    scmRevision = os.getenv('GIT_COMMIT')
+
+if not scmRevision:
+    scmRevision = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", "--format=%H", "-n 1", "HEAD"]).strip().decode()
+
 # Now we generate the ABI dumps for every library we have found
 for library in foundLibraries:
     # Create the ABI Dump for this library
@@ -284,10 +294,11 @@
     # This location is controlled by abi-compliance-checker, but follows a predictable pattern
     fileName = "abi_dumps/{name}/{version}/ABI.dump".format(name=library.name,version=library.version)
 
-    # Determine the internal version of the library we have found
-    # This is based off the CMake package metadata we read in above
-    scmRevision = max([t['SONAME'] for t in library.targets.values()]) # a more hackish way, to save the SONAME in the metadata
-
-    # Create a name for this entry in the Package archive and store it there
-    packageName = "{name}_{scmRevision}".format(name=library.name, scmRevision=scmRevision)
-    ourArchive.storePackage(packageName, fileName, scmRevision)
+    extraMetadata = {
+            "SONAME": max([t['SONAME'] for t in lib.targets.values()]), # use max because there may be more than one lib inside
+            "version": lib.version,
+            "libname": lib.name,
+            "targets": lib.targets.keys(),
+    }
+    packageName = "{name}_{scmRevision}".format(name=lib.name, scmRevision=scmRevision)
+    ourArchive.storePackage(packageName, fileName, scmRevision, extraMetadata)
diff --git a/helpers/helperslib/Packages.py b/helpers/helperslib/Packages.py
--- a/helpers/helperslib/Packages.py
+++ b/helpers/helperslib/Packages.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import copy
 import os
 import re
 import stat
@@ -134,17 +135,25 @@
 		return ( localContentsPath, localMetadata )
 
 	# Generates the metadata which is stored in the .yaml file that accompanies each package which is stored in the archive
-	def generateMetadataForFile( self, contentsNeedingMetadata, scmRevision ):
+	# Extra metadata saved to metadata file, and will be written to yaml file, needs to be a dict like object
+	def generateMetadataForFile( self, contentsNeedingMetadata, scmRevision, extraMetadata=None ):
 		# First, determine the timestamp the file was last modified
 		packageTimestamp = os.path.getmtime( contentsNeedingMetadata )
 		# Now the checksum
 		packageChecksum = CommonUtils.generateFileChecksum( contentsNeedingMetadata )
-		# Build the metadata which we'll be writing out
-		metadataForPackage = {
+
+		metadataForPackage = {}
+
+		# If we have extraMetadata for this Package pre-seed the metadata dictionary
+		if extraMetadata:
+		    metadataForPackage = copy.copy(self.extraMetadata)
+
+		# Update/adds the nessary keys, that we want to exist.
+		metadataForPackage.update({
 			'timestamp':   packageTimestamp,
 			'checksum':    packageChecksum,
 			'scmRevision': scmRevision
-		}
+		})
 
 		# Write the YAML out to a temporary file
 		latestMetadata = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, mode='w', dir=self.temporaryFileLocation())
@@ -157,13 +166,14 @@
 	# Stores a package in the archive, either by creation of or updating of an existing package
 	# As part of this process metadata will be generated for the package we are about to add to the archive to assist in caching later on
 	# The package and it's metadata will then be uploaded to the remote archive and published, then transferred to our local cache
-	def storePackage( self, package, archiveFileToInclude, scmRevision = '' ):
+	# Extra metadata saved to metadata file, and will be written to yaml file, needs to be a dict like object
+	def storePackage( self, package, archiveFileToInclude, scmRevision = '', extraMetadata=None ):
 		# Determine the names the metadata and archive files would have respectively
 		metadataFilename = package + ".yaml"
 		contentsFilename = package + ".tar"
 
 		# Generate metadata for the package we are about to store
-		archiveMetadata  = self.generateMetadataForFile( archiveFileToInclude, scmRevision )
+		archiveMetadata  = self.generateMetadataForFile( archiveFileToInclude, scmRevision, extraMetadata )
 
 		# Connect to the upload host
 		privateKeyFile = os.path.join( os.path.expanduser('~'), 'Keys', self.name + '.key')