[ckan-discuss] Harvester questions/issues

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi Stéphane,

On 31 October 2013 01:48, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca> wrote:
>
> Other question for you, folks: so the harvester do not copy the resource on
> the local CKAN instance. I just points the resource where it is. In our
> case, we were expecting to connect our server to an *internal* CSW server
> (so resources of that server would not be available for the public). So we
> need CKAN to copy the resources of the CSW locally. I guess we will have to
> do some code changes to do that file copy. Am I right?
Yes, the actual resources or data files are not downloaded locally. I
suggest having a look at ckanext-archiver which is used to download
remote data files. I'm not sure how up to date it is but it should
probably work fine on CKAN 2.1.

Adrià