I am trying to download a module and it seems that all the mirror sites are not working.

Also I am getting this message in CPAN: 
  There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.9102) available!
  [Current version is v1.87]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrad
+e
  while we are running...

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I will admit I am a little scared to do this since I "think" I did it once and it broke all my scripts that used downloaded modules and I had to reload them all.

So if I start CPAN and type: 
install CPAN
reload CPAN

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1. Will it allow me to choose new download mirrors?
2. Will it mess up my downloaded modules and require me to re-install/download them?

In reply to Upgrading CPAN by awohld

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