Upgrade 8.2 -> 9.4 breaks cpan?

[Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my rock solid 8.2 NetBSD-macppc system to NetBSD 9.4 largely to get support for the many pkgsrc packages. Unfortunatly, I now have a new problem.

If I run cpan (perl-5.38.2) and try to install (or upgrade) a pod, HTTP::Tiny fails to connect to cpan.org, complaining about the SSL certificate being bad. It appears that this is not actually an SSL problem with CPAN because my other NetBSD systems can connect correctly.

I have found a workaround by changing Client.pm ("./perl5/site_perl/5.38.0/CPAN/HTTP/Client.pm”) at line 35 from 

verify_SSL => 1,
to
verify_SSL => 0,

This works, but is a local change I’d like to remove.

I upgraded directly from 8.2 to 9.4, but it may be that the break happened at 9.1 or 9.3. I plan o test 9.1, 9.2, etc, and report back at what point does the SSL stop working in cpan.

Ideas?

-dgl-