[CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

Mon Mar 11 21:36:01 UTC 2019
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

On 3/11/19 1:57 PM, Warren Young wrote:
*snip*
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> What is correct is that the CentOS-provided RPMs are often sufficiently outdated that they no longer work with the latest releases that cpanm wants to download by default. 

Often I end up downloading a src.rpm from Fedora for perl modules and 
building that.

It means security patches are now my responsibility for it, and 
sometimes it has other perm module dependencies that I have to do the 
same thing with first, but it usually it works without too much fuss.