Puppet users - Aug 2014 - Puppet's yumhelper.py vs. other pythons on the system

When trying to add packages to a CentOS 6 system I am getting chronic 
errors of the form:

Error: Could not get latest version: Execution of '/usr/local/bin/python 
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 
1: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>

Error: /Stage[main]/Jenkins_packages::Centos/Package[subversion]/ensure: 
change from 1.6.11-10.el6_5 to latest failed: Could not get latest version: 
Execution of '/usr/local/bin/python 
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 
1: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>


whether manually running "puppet agent --test" or letting cron do it
for me.

This seems to be because the default root path in CentOS includes 
/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, and thus I am getting a user-needed other 
python version that is a mismatch with the python version that puppet seems 
to want to play with.

When I run:

"puppet agent --test --path /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"


things seem to work without complaint.

I tried to set that path in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf, but it doesn't seem to 
work. Should that work?

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