[Bug 261555] 410.pkg-audit: suggested patch to improve expiry by handling anticongestion delay better

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261555

--- Comment #1 from wbe@psr.com ---
This patch may not be needed for FreeBSD 14.

Although my cursory scan of crontab and periodic tables didn't find who's doing
it, with 14.0, I'm seeing vuln.xml consistently fetched at 00:30 on the days
it's fetched.  If you're eliminating anticongestion by fetching vuln.xml at a
consistent time separately from the vulnerability scan at 03:02 - 04:01 as was
the case in 13.2 and earlier, then obviously no anticongestion accommodation is
needed.

However, if load on your servers is an issue, the patch + fetching at a
variable (anticongestion) time later (when periodic runs the security tests)
may be better for getting the #days between fetches right than the new method
of always fetching at 00:30.
 -WBE

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