SBT depend on specific snapshot version

Question

I have artifactory with multiple snapshots versions such as artifact-0.1-20120831.103456-5.

My project depends on specific snapshot version. If I tell SBT

Answer 1

An ugly workaround would be to install the snapshot artefact in your own groupId (say smith.external) NOT as a SNAPSHOT, using install:instal-file and declare the desired version number instead of declaring the usage of snapshot.

As you don't expect the version to change, you can rely on this, until you get it to work with a provided stable version (and the regular groupId)