Index: general/prog/perl-modules.xml
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--- general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision 0299ce4ef9f8a1547d940bf50beab02c3d5816e9)
+++ general/prog/perl-modules.xml	(revision 45f4e7c22d6d16d751e59551d73153ad153ea871)
@@ -157,8 +157,5 @@
 
  Also, for external modules where we link to CPAN without a current version,
- prefer to use http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name if that works, rather
- than pointing to a maintainers home directory : the maintainer for a package
- sometimes changes.  Also,  use '-' rather than '::'  because '-' will go
- directly to the page instead of providing a list of possible matches.
+ prefer to go to https://metacpan.org/, find the module and link to it.
 
  Where a dependency is used by multiple other modules on this page, but not by
@@ -213,8 +210,16 @@
     <note>
       <para>For unversioned modules on this page, if you are building without
-      using the CPAN automated install you should check when the current version
-      was released. If it is recent you should review its 'Changes' and
-      'Dependencies' links at http://search.cpan.org in case the dependencies
-      have altered.</para>
+      using the CPAN automated install then the links on this page should go to
+      "known good" versions, for which the dependencies are correct. If you wish
+      to use a later version, please check the Changes file at
+      https://metacpan.org - sometimes added dependencies are listed, other
+      times not. The BLFS editors only monitor such modules, and their
+      dependencies, irregularly.  Some of these modules have very frequent
+      updates. The linked external versions below are known to build and work
+      with BLFS-8.3</para>
+
+      <para>However, if you notice that the Changes file for a newer version
+      than is in the current development book reports a fix for a security issue,
+      please report this to either the blfs-dev or the blfs-support list.</para>
     </note>
 
@@ -245,9 +250,9 @@
 MD5 sum: &Archive-Zip-md5sum;</literallayout>
         <itemizedlist>
-          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/">Test::MockModule</ulink> - This uses the <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/>
-(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/)</literallayout>
+          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GF/GFRANKS/Test-MockModule-0.15.tar.gz">Test::MockModule</ulink> - This uses the <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/>
+(https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GF/GFRANKS/Test-MockModule-0.15.tar.gz)</literallayout>
             <itemizedlist>
-              <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/">SUPER</ulink>
-(http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/) (for the testsuite)</literallayout>
+              <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHROMATIC/SUPER-1.20141117.tar.gz">SUPER</ulink>
+(https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHROMATIC/SUPER-1.20141117.tar.gz) (for the testsuite)</literallayout>
                 <itemizedlist>
                   <listitem>
@@ -323,9 +328,9 @@
 MD5 sum: &Business-ISBN-md5sum;</literallayout>
         <itemizedlist>
-          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Business-ISBN-Data/">Business::ISBN::Data</ulink>
-(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Business-ISBN-Data/)</literallayout>
-          </listitem>
-          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/">Mojolicious</ulink>
-(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/)</literallayout>
+          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISBN-Data-20140910.003.tar.gz">Business::ISBN::Data</ulink>
+(https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISBN-Data-20140910.003.tar.gz)</literallayout>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SRI/Mojolicious-7.93.tar.gz">Mojolicious</ulink>
+(https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SRI/Mojolicious-7.93.tar.gz)</literallayout>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
