/var/lib/pulp-cds is where packages are synchronized to on the CDS. The CDS secret is stored at /var/lib/pulp-cds/gofer. This could cause problems if a repository with the relative path of "gofer" was created. The solution is pretty simple, just move .secret up a directory to /var/lib/pulp-cds.
Moved to: /var/lib/pulp-cds/.gofer/secret
build: 0.168
Verified in build 0.171, the location of secret file has now been changed from /var/lib/pulp-cds/gofer/.secret to /var/lib/pulp-cds/.gofer/secret
moving to verified as per the above comment.
Closing with Community Release 15 pulp-0.0.223-4.