Failed to download metadata for repo 'base'

[sara.hann@telos.com]

Please, how can I connect to the Centos 8 BaseOS repo? I am getting errors of no repomd.xml file. Also, I cannot find the RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8 , like the ones available for 7 and earlier. below is the error I get and my entry in the .repo file. thanks in advance for your help:

Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'base':
CentOS-8-Base 35 kB/s | 7.6 kB 00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for repository '8base':
- Status code: 404 for http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseO ... repomd.xml (IP: 208.74.123.85)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo '8base': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried


sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
[base]
name=CentOS-8-Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7 ... 64&repo=os
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8
priority=1

[TrevorH]

You appear to have tried to adapt a CentOS 7 repo file to 8 and they are not directly comparable. The 8 version should look like this:

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[baseos]
name=CentOS Linux $releasever - BaseOS
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=BaseOS&infra=$infra
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/BaseOS/$basearch/os/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial

Once you have that in place you should probably yum reinstall centos-linux-repos.noarch and then check the various /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo.rpmnew files as those are the ones the newly reinstalled package will have supplied.