While working with perl 5.10.1 today, my CPAN data has gotten messed up:
cpan[1]> force install Term::ReadLine
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read '/home/____/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:27:01 GMT
Running install for module 'Term::ReadLine'
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.70)
Running make for D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.829)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://cpan-sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1
+.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)
Checksum for /home/____/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1
+.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /home/____/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE
DEL(1/1): /home/____/.cpan/build/DAPM-Xy6n72 
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.52)
perl-5.10.1/
perl-5.10.1/sv.c

[download]
which then goes on for a long time, untarring perl5.10.1, until it stops at 
perl-5.10.1/Configure

[download]
I have to control-C out of it.

I tried deleting some things from ~/.cpan/ but have not been able to find the right thing to remove, to keep CPAN from think that perl 5.10.1 is needed for Term::ReadLine.

In what order should I try deleting things from ~/.cpan (or doing something else) so as to keep as much of my context while getting rid of this problem?

Thanks,
cmac

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