[OE-core] [PATCH 5/5] cve-update-db-native: don't refresh more than once an hour

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Nov 12 15:27:58 UTC 2019


On 11/11/2019 22:19, akuster808 wrote:
> err, I thought the NVD db is only updated once every two hours. And why
> is this not a variable so folks can tweak accordingly?

This a fast-path so that a refresh isn't even attempted 60 minutes after 
a fetch.  A fetch involves checking the last updates times in the 
metadata anyway so is relatively fast.

Don't see the need for this to be another variable.  Do you have a 
better refresh interval?

Ross


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