diff --git a/shutils/tmpl_vars.sh b/shutils/tmpl_vars.sh
index 978ae03deb..3c51751a9a 100644
--- a/shutils/tmpl_vars.sh
+++ b/shutils/tmpl_vars.sh
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ XORG_SITE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual"
 DEBIAN_SITE="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool"
 GNOME_SITE="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources"
 KERNEL_SITE="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux"
+CPAN_SITE="http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-module"
diff --git a/templates/perl-XML-Parser/template b/templates/perl-XML-Parser/template
index f87769b42d..f7514f23cc 100644
--- a/templates/perl-XML-Parser/template
+++ b/templates/perl-XML-Parser/template
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 pkgname=perl-XML-Parser
 version=2.36
 wrksrc="XML-Parser-$version"
-distfiles="
-http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-module/XML/XML-Parser-$version.tar.gz"
+distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/XML/XML-Parser-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=perl_module
 short_desc="Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"