So I've managed to shoot myself in the foot. Earlier today I did an update of my CPAN module, via a perl -MCPAN -e shell session. This was kind of a reflex because I hadn't used CPAN for a while. That turned out OK (upgraded to v2.14 of CPAN), but ever since, any time I use perl -MCPAN -e shell and try to install or update anything, I get an annoying error:

Will not use CPAN::Meta::Requirements, need version 2.120920

Naturally that requirement is a literal specification in the v2.14 CPAN.pm module code. It's not "need >=". I have v2.125 of CPAN::Meta::Requirements.

Any clues on how best to sort this out? I grabbed source for CPAN v 2.16 but building that shows I need to upgrade other things, and I want to be able to rely on the CPAN module for managing packages. It's great when it works right :)

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