On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:16:49AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > I've run into this so many times and over such a long period of time > that it looks more like a cpanm bug to me, given that the normal > cpan client doesn't suffer from this. Perhaps it needs to learn > about some other mirrors and automagically fall back to them if > downloading from www.cpan.org fails.
You can use cpanm with any mirror(s) you like. I have a shell alias set up so 'cpanm $module' always pulls from my local mirror first, falling back to cpan.org on failure.
