diff --git a/openSUSE-appstream-process b/openSUSE-appstream-process
index 7fe1b84..50c0dd0 100644
--- a/openSUSE-appstream-process
+++ b/openSUSE-appstream-process
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
   --packages-dir=${SRC}					\
   --output-dir=${DEST}
 
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+RET=$?
+
+if [ $RET -ne 0 ]; then
   # The appstream-builder failed, exit with an error code, so prod builder knows about it
-  exit 1
+  exit $RET
 fi
 
 # clean up TMPDIR again