Thanks for the added info. Some clarification...

The original complaint in this thread is from someone who has Perl 5.6.0 not 5.005_03. So the patch came after 5.6.0 and it is 5.6.1 that will come with a fixed CPAN.pm?

I think 5.6.0 existed for a very long time during much of which I ignored its existance and that is a major problem with my recall of the timeline.

Also, I recall another reason that CPAN.pm would decide to upgrade Perl was that the newest version of the module being requested is the one shipped with Perl (vs. that the module listed Perl vX.Y.Z as a dependancy). That is the piece that I'm worried was rebroken.

So I'm still a little curious if this has really been fixed. So it would really be nice if the original noder would let us know if upgrading CPAN fixed the problem. I think I'll /msg them... (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re2: Stopping CPAN from upgrading Perl by tye
in thread Stopping CPAN from upgrading Perl by chorg

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