All this talk about about list updates has gotten me thinking about a question I thought I already understood.
Rick Matthews, in his handy-dandy script, indicates in a comment that the .diff files included in the squidGuard blacklists, are fluff. I am wondering if this is because the changes are already included in the blacklists themselves. I didn't look at the script logic very well (chances are I wouldn't understand it without several days' analysis), but I assume there is something going on in that to prevent any changes made between downloads of fresh blacklists from being lost. My solution to preventing wipe-out of custom changes made between published list updates, was to cat all the changes in the dated diff files into domains.diff and urls.diff, respectively (for each list category), and then run the update against those diff files-- in essence, I am applying only deltas to my lists. The recent transactions with regard to updates has made me suspect that perhaps I am misinformed as to the veracity of this strategy. Any comments regarding this question are welcome. Regards, Henry Barker
