[Pulp-list] Client configuration made easier

[Jay Dobies]

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On 02/09/2011 08:49 AM, Jay Dobies wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 05:56 PM, 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.
> 
> Last night I swear I read an e-mail that said something about waiting to
> update the UG when the CR was published, but this is the only reference
> to the UG still in my inbox. But I'll make my comment anyway just to
> make sure it's clear.
> 
> Just a reminder, the wiki UG is intended to be the current
> master/testing build install instructions. So feel free to update those
> when you make any changes to how pulp runs. They won't be published to
> pulpproject.org until the CR, so there's no risk of being in a situation
> where the instructions you add/change don't apply to the CR.

P.S. Very cool changes, glad we got these done this sprint.

>> Hope this helps,
> 
>> Jeff
> 
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