Patching chkrootkit is not really an option, because you would open a door for an attacker, who could hide stuff explicitly in .packlist . On the other hand, if you delete your .packlists and one pops up later on a chkrootkit run you would know that either someone has installed or updated a Perl package, or your system may have been compromised. From the chkrootkit FAQ:

8. chkrootkit is reporting some files and dirs as suspicious: `.packlist', `.cvsignore', etc. These are clearly false positives. Can't you ignore these?

Ignoring some files and dirs could impair chkrootkit's accuracy. An attacker might use this, since he knows that chkrootkit will ignore certain files and dirs.

Anyway, if only the mentioned ExtUtils::Installed will cease to function, I think I could live with that. Unless of course, this would have side effects for example in CPAN.pm

So, let's rephrase my orginal question: can I, or can I not, live without ExtUtils::Installed?

In reply to Re: Re: Deleting .packlist files by dub4u
in thread Deleting .packlist files by dub4u

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