add exception placeholder for older msgpacks

Fix for #26705.
saltstack · Aug 27, 2015 · ebcfaf9 · ebcfaf9
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diff --git a/salt/payload.py b/salt/payload.py
@@ -48,6 +48,21 @@
         #sys.exit(salt.defaults.exitcodes.EX_GENERIC)
 
 
+if not hasattr(msgpack, 'exceptions'):
+    class PackValueError(Exception):
+        '''
+        older versions of msgpack do not have PackValueError
+        '''
+
+    class exceptions(object):
+        '''
+        older versions of msgpack do not have an exceptions module
+        '''
+        PackValueError = PackValueError()
+
+    msgpack.exceptions = exceptions()
+
+
 def package(payload):
     '''
     This method for now just wraps msgpack.dumps, but it is here so that