FC3 - yum.conf and yum.repos.d files

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 20:15 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 11/13/2004 02:06 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> >  - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl'
> >    instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files.
> 
> What is the difference between using several lines of local mirrors with 
> baseurl, and using a local mirrorlist (as in 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/) consisting of local 
> mirrors with mirrorlist? Any reason chosing one over the other?

A local mirrorlist can be maintained in one place (e.g. on a local web
server) whereas editing local yum repo files would have to be done on
each machine if you had several to maintain.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>