Artifact Relocation in inhouse repository

[ru...@thomson.com]

Have any of you tried to use the "relocation" feature of maven when
needing to change the group id of an already published artifact?  See
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-relocation.html

 

When I follow the directions from that link Maven starts complaining
that it can no longer find the artifact when still trying to reference
it using the old group and artifact name.  I see other artifacts out
there that have done it like

Wutka dtdparser.  

 

Old ref:  wutka:dtdparser:1.21

New ref: com.wutka:dtdparser:1.21

 

Using the old one redirects you to the new one like it is suppose but
when I try it with my local stuff maven claims it can't find the old one
anymore.

 

I thought maybe it had to do with me using Proximity but even with that
it handles wutka just fine?

 

Any ideas?

 

--Rudy