diff --git a/appstream-glib.changes b/appstream-glib.changes
index b195225..31670e0 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.changes
+++ b/appstream-glib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 14 11:35:44 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Update openSUSE-appstream-process: exit early if as-builder does
+  not end with exit 0.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep  5 20:26:36 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/openSUSE-appstream-process b/openSUSE-appstream-process
index c642e9b..7fe1b84 100644
--- a/openSUSE-appstream-process
+++ b/openSUSE-appstream-process
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
   --packages-dir=${SRC}					\
   --output-dir=${DEST}
 
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  # The appstream-builder failed, exit with an error code, so prod builder knows about it
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # clean up TMPDIR again
 rm -rf ${TMPDIR}