What is the difference between baseurl and mirrorlist? what address (url) should they have? If we swap baseurl and mirrorlist, still will it work in same way?

# CentOS-Base.repo # # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead.

baseurl Must be a URL that points to the directory where the yum 'repodata' is. It can be a http://, ftp:// or file:// URL. mirrorlist It specifies a URL that points to a file containing a list of baseurls. You can use this statement instead of baseurl.

So basically mirrorlist is an easier way to specify a list of baseurls. The way they (list of baseurls / mirrorlist) work is: if the first link in the list fails for whatever reason, the system will try to get the item you need from the second URL in the list and so on.


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