From aa8fa8e9bd6029a015cd08814c3360665a2e2b1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Plant <tom.plant@devicie.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 10:46:45 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Bubble up child process errors in IndexCreationTool

Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Plant <tom.plant@devicie.com>
---
 src/WinGetSourceCreator/Helpers.cs | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/WinGetSourceCreator/Helpers.cs b/src/WinGetSourceCreator/Helpers.cs
index 7e34735064..438860a4aa 100644
--- a/src/WinGetSourceCreator/Helpers.cs
+++ b/src/WinGetSourceCreator/Helpers.cs
@@ -86,12 +86,7 @@ public static void Unpack(string package, string outDir)
             string pathToSDK = SDKDetector.Instance.LatestSDKBinPath;
             string makeappxExecutable = Path.Combine(pathToSDK, "makeappx.exe");
             string args = $"unpack /nv /p \"{package}\" /d \"{outDir}\"";
-            Process p = new Process
-            {
-                StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(makeappxExecutable, args)
-            };
-            p.Start();
-            p.WaitForExit();
+            RunCommand(makeappxExecutable, args);
         }
 
         public static void PackWithMappingFile(string outputPackage, string mappingFile)
@@ -138,6 +133,11 @@ public static void RunCommand(string command, string args, string? workingDirect
             }
             p.Start();
             p.WaitForExit();
+
+            if (p.ExitCode != 0)
+            {
+                throw new Exception($"Command failed with exit code {p.ExitCode}: {command} {args}");
+            }
         }
 
         // If in the future we edit more elements, this should be a nice wrapper class.