diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 3259dfcaa..36ebba84a 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
 
 <!ENTITY perl-version "5.10.1">
 <!ENTITY perl-size "11,336 KB">
-<!ENTITY perl-url "http://cpan.org/src/perl-&perl-version;.tar.bz2">
+<!ENTITY perl-url "http://cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-&perl-version;.tar.bz2">
 <!ENTITY perl-md5 "82400c6d34f7b7b43d0196c76cd2bbb1">
 <!ENTITY perl-home "http://cpan.org/">
 <!ENTITY perl-ch5-du "106 MB">