Hi @mcascone ,
Good question; the documentation isn't very clear. How do you feel about this, I just updated the docs :)
If you want to change the directories your packages are stored, you'll also need move/copy the contents from the current location to the new location. We generally recommend:
- Scheduling a downtime and notifying your users
- Changing the desired settings in ProGet
- Disable the feed or ProGet application entirely
- Transferring the files to the new location
- Enabling ProGet again
You can also keep ProGet online the entire time; this will just cause a number of "package file not found" errors if anyone tries to download the package before the transfer is complete.
Depending on how many packages files you have, transferring may require a significant amount of time; you may not wish ProGet to be offline or for users to experience errors during the process. In this case, we recommend first mirroring the files using a tool like robocopy /MIR
a few times (just in case packages were uploaded during the initial copy), and then changing the settings in ProGet.