From a56b655bd74f9189d9db546f8b879db7374da528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike McLean <mikem@redhat.com>
Date: Nov 30 2017 21:23:22 +0000
Subject: deal with failed commands


---

diff --git a/runtests b/runtests
index 940bdf4..8d0adf9 100755
--- a/runtests
+++ b/runtests
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ def checkout_run(cmd, ref='HEAD'):
     """Run command in a fresh checkout of ref and return output"""
     tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
     explode_ref(ref, tempdir)
-    output = subprocess.check_output(cmd, cwd=tempdir,
-                stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+    try:
+        output = subprocess.check_output(cmd, cwd=tempdir,
+                    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+        print("Command failed with code %s" % e.returncode)
+        output = e.output
     return output