Rules and Guidelines for Working With Debian Snapshots

To work with Debian Snapshots in Artifactory, you need to configure the sources file of your Debian client to point to the following path: artUrl/artifactory/api/deb/$repoKey/snapshots/$tag.

The root of the snapshot sub-repository is $repoKey/snapshots/$tag.

All the metadata files of the $srcRepo/dists/$distribution, including the release and packages file, are copied to the snapshot folder.

In the folder, a property called deb.snapshot.source is created pointing to the source repository.

You need to use /artifactory/api/deb/$repoKey/snapshots/$tag, whereby the tag is a user-defined name for the snapshot.

Deleting a snapshot does not delete the related Debian Package files as the. Debian Snapshots sub-repositories does not contain the packages, but only redirect to them.