The note that recommends you to remove the old snapshot is more of a
precaution.
In the majority of cases (if not all) Artifactory knows how to handle
repositories of a certain policy but of mixed content, and the important
things (like metadata generation and cleanup) should work properly; though
once changing the policy, you might observe some quirky behavior in niche
cases, and the old non-unique snapshots will remain unused and just take up
space.
If you're reluctant to remove the old snapshots, I suggest that you keep
them and perform a trial migration starting with a local team and their
repository/ies to see how smoothly it goes and gradually move on.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Pacileo, Ken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've been putting off upgrading our projects to Maven 3 because to do
> so requires changing our snapshot repository's snapshot version behavior
> from non-unique to unique. The documentation
> (http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/Local+Repositories) states
> to change the snapshot policy to unique and to remove any previously
> deployed snapshots from the repository. Our snapshot repository contains
> 840 artifacts (using Artifactory version 2.4.2) across 27+ project
> teams.
>
> My question is whether it is absolutely necessary to remove any
> previously deployed snapshots and what are the implications if we do not
> remove the snapshots? I didn't have any luck Googl'ing to see if someone
> else had this question nor did a search on Nabble get any relevant hits.
>
> Any help is appreciated in understanding our options. I'd like to make
> as minimal impact as possible to our users since the project teams are
> in various countries and their release schedules could be affected by
> any work disruption.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> --Ken
>
> Ken Pacileo | Continuous Integration Services | UnitedHealth Group IT
>
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