diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 9f36fe0d2..51a594e26 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # For non-released -rc kernels, this will be appended after the rcX and
 # gitX tags, so a 3 here would become part of release "0.rcX.gitX.3"
 #
-%global baserelease 9
+%global baserelease 10
 %global fedora_build %{baserelease}
 
 # base_sublevel is the kernel version we're starting with and patching
@@ -1650,7 +1650,14 @@ BuildKernel() {
 	rm filter-*.sh
 
     # Run depmod on the resulting module tree and make sure it isn't broken
-    depmod -b . -aeF ./System.map $KernelVer
+    depmod -b . -aeF ./System.map $KernelVer &> depmod.out
+    if [ -s depmod.out ]; then
+        echo "Depmod failure"
+        cat depmod.out
+        exit 1
+    else
+        rm depmod.out
+    fi
     # remove files that will be auto generated by depmod at rpm -i time
     pushd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/modules/$KernelVer/
         rm -f modules.{alias*,builtin.bin,dep*,*map,symbols*,devname,softdep}
@@ -2180,6 +2187,9 @@ fi
 #                                    ||----w |
 #                                    ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 29 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 3.15.0-0.rc3.git1.10
+- Make depmod call fatal if it errors or warns
+
 * Tue Apr 29 2014 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
 - Introduce kernel-core/kernel-drivers split for F21 Feature work