diff --git a/auto-update-debuginfo.patch b/auto-update-debuginfo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c3e5aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/auto-update-debuginfo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From: Zdeněk Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:34:42 +0000 (+0200)
+Subject:  Fix check for repos in opts, in auto-update-debuginfo plugin. BZ 729964.
+X-Git-Url: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=efb3c7b3fb96523bb5997c163bf4e33ab897f1b8
+
+ Fix check for repos in opts, in auto-update-debuginfo plugin. BZ 729964.
+
+ Also hasattr(None, 'repos') == False, so we don't need
+to check for None explicitly.
+---
+
+diff --git a/plugins/auto-update-debuginfo/auto-update-debuginfo.py b/plugins/auto-update-debuginfo/auto-update-debuginfo.py
+index 39993ad..9ff927c 100644
+--- a/plugins/auto-update-debuginfo/auto-update-debuginfo.py
++++ b/plugins/auto-update-debuginfo/auto-update-debuginfo.py
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def _check_man_disable(mdrs, di):
+ def enable_debuginfo_repos(yb, conduit):
+     mdrs = set()
+     opts, args = conduit.getCmdLine()
+-    if opts is not None and hasattr(opts.repos) :
++    if hasattr(opts, 'repos'):
+         for opt, repoexp in opts.repos:
+             if opt == '--disablerepo':
+                 mdrs.add(repoexp)
diff --git a/yum-utils.spec b/yum-utils.spec
index 4524bbe..b71aeae 100644
--- a/yum-utils.spec
+++ b/yum-utils.spec
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 Summary: Utilities based around the yum package manager
 Name: yum-utils
 Version: 1.1.31
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Group: Development/Tools
 Source: http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-utils/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: auto-update-debuginfo.patch
 URL: http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-utils/
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildArch: noarch
@@ -380,6 +381,7 @@ Supplies checksums for files in packages from puppet's state file.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -677,6 +679,9 @@ fi
 /usr/lib/yum-plugins/puppetverify.*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 13 2011 Tim Lauridsen <timlau@fedoraproject.org> 
+- fix traceback in auto-update-debuginfo plugin (rhbz #729982)
+
 * Thu Aug 10 2011 Tim Lauridsen <timlau@fedoraproject.org> 
 - mark as 1.1.31
 - remove patches