At present, FreshPorts deletes all VuXML information each time a commit to ~/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml occurs. To reduce database churn, I'm now looking at optimizing this process.

I expect the answer to my question to be yes, but do not want to rely upon only my expectation. Do you respect the date_modified field?

I ask for reasons of keeping things simple. FreshPorts inserts each vuln into a table. Is it sufficient for FreshPorts to compare the last_modified field as supplied in vuln.xml to determine whether or not it should update its information?

Thanks