[Pulp-list] Client configuration made easier

[Jason L Connor]

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:56 -0600, Jeff Ortel wrote:
> After replacing the pulp agent with a gofer (agent) plugin, configuring the client to use 
> a remote qpid server became less intuitive.  The intent was for pulp's use of gofer to be 
> an implementation detail not exposed to pulp users.  But, ...
> 
> Today, in fixing (669484 & 669498), I pushed changes to make client configuration more 
> intuitive for pulp users again.  The pulp (gofer) plugin descriptor new references the 
> server.host in /etc/pulp/client.conf for the qpid broker url.  This means editing the 
> /etc/gofer/agent.conf is no longer necessary.  Further, I symlinked 'pulp-agent' to 
> 'goferd' in /etc/rc.d/init.d.  This creates pseudo service like 'pulp-server' but for the 
> agent.  When configuring a client (consumer) to connect to a remote pulp server the steps 
> are as follows:
> 
> 1) edit /etc/pulp/client.conf and change the server.host
> 2) service pulp-agent restart
> 
> Done.
> 
> wiki/ug updates to follow.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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Nice! This will make it much easier to configure clients.

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