diff --git a/package/import/cpan/cpan.conf b/package/import/cpan/cpan.conf
index a42db7975..c86e0b727 100644
--- a/package/import/cpan/cpan.conf
+++ b/package/import/cpan/cpan.conf
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ then
 	taropt="--use-compress-program=gzip -xf"
 	hook_add prepare 2 cpan_getsrc
 
-	pdetails=$base/download/mirror/c/cpan_packages_20060324.txt.bz2
+	pdetails=$base/download/mirror/c/cpan_packages_$cpan_packages_ver.txt.bz2
 	cpanbase=http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id
 
 	read cpanmod cpanver cpanloc < <(
diff --git a/package/import/cpan/cpan.desc b/package/import/cpan/cpan.desc
index c6be0bbd1..855dc4410 100644
--- a/package/import/cpan/cpan.desc
+++ b/package/import/cpan/cpan.desc
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 
 [I] A CPAN import package
 
-[T] This package has been imported from CPAM using the cpan import
-[T] package. See package package filelist and perldoc for details.
+[T] This package has been imported from CPAN using the cpan import
+[T] package. See package filelist and perldoc for details.
 
 [A] See perldoc
 [M] Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 [P] X -?---5---9 201.600
 
 # http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
+[O] cpan_packages_ver=20060324
 [D] 2719854068 cpan_packages_20060324.txt.gz http://www.rocklinux.net/people/clifford/mirror/
 
 [CD] <COPY> rm $confdir/*.cache