It would be nice to be able to retain some previous metadata fields instead of dropping them; this would allow adding additional metadata from the CKAN interface on harvested resources, without risking losing them.
ckanext-harvest uses package update, but a switch to use package_patch instead should be pretty easy to implement. Otherwise, a list of protected metadata could be provided, so they can be copied over if needed.
It would be nice to be able to retain some previous metadata fields instead of dropping them; this would allow adding additional metadata from the CKAN interface on harvested resources, without risking losing them.
ckanext-harvest uses package update, but a switch to use package_patch instead should be pretty easy to implement. Otherwise, a list of protected metadata could be provided, so they can be copied over if needed.