The other day, I was installing a module via CPAN's shell interface when the notice came up that there was a new version of CPAN available (1.59). So I was decided to install it. When I tried to install it, it checked my dependencies, and noticed that a few modules were out of date with the most recent versions on CPAN, so it went ahead to upgrade them.

One of these modules (I fail to remember the exact one, something IO based) is found in the main perl distribution, so CPAN tries to haul down the latest version of that. The problem is, the latest version is perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1, which is in Gurusamy's directory, but isn't listed as a stable (or even a development release) in the src directories.

So how can I tell CPAN to only update specific modules (like perl) if they're stable or "absolutely necessary"? I don't particularly want to have it ask me every time it needs to update a dependency, but I also want to make sure that CPAN doesn't try to upgrade my perl distribution to the latest non-stable version.

In reply to What is CPAN doing? by Hrunting

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