In astropy, iers.py downloads finals2000A.all on the first time it was used. However, in my use case, programs are auto deployed to machines that don’t have reliable network connection. So is it possible to copy the files to a certain place during setup, and how and where should I place the files?
The best option would probably be to set the config entries for iers_auto_url etc. to local paths – see
https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/config/index.html#getting-started