Rob, Thanks for the suggestions. The force install seems like my best option for this.

To confirm what you suspected about the Metasploit code being removed from the test suite I found the following on Github in the Perldelta notes for Storable:

=item *

L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 3.13 to 3.14.

Storable no longer probes for recursion limits at build time. [perl
#133708] and others.

Metasploit exploit code was included to test for CVE-2015-1992
detection, this caused anti-virus detections on at least one AV suite.
The exploit code has been removed and replaced with a simple
functional test. [perl #133706]
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