Thanks for the tip.  Also, did you email the maintainer, so that the
.info file gets changed?

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:14, David Sewell wrote:
> I just had "fink install xml-dom-pm" fail because the source file
> 
>    http://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/id/T/TJ/TJMATHER/XML-DOM-1.39.tar.gz
> 
> was missing (and likewise from other mirrors).
> 
> It was missing because there is a newer version up on the CPAN archives.
> 
> In a case like this, note that you can grab an older Perl module source
> by going to http://history.perl.org/backpan/ and looking in the
> directory corresponding to what follows "CPAN" in the original URL. For
> example, the file I needed was at
> 
>    http://history.perl.org/backpan/authors/id/T/TJ/TJMATHER/XML-DOM-1.39.tar.gz
> 
> Download the file into /sw/src and rerun the "fink install" command.
> 
> DS
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