diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ccd1204b..c21c6de5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ bash-completion (2.x)
   * Complete oo{writer,impress,calc,draw} on LibreOffice FlatXML extensions
     (RedHat: #692548).
 
+  [ Scott Bronson ]
+  * Override MANPAGER when generating perldoc completions (RedHat: #689180).
+
  -- David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>  Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:46:37 +0100
 
 bash-completion (1.3)
diff --git a/completions/perl b/completions/perl
index 5996b3bb..1ded7cba 100644
--- a/completions/perl
+++ b/completions/perl
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ _perldoc()
         if [[ "$cur" != */* ]]; then
             _perlmodules $perl
             COMPREPLY+=( $( compgen -W \
-                '$( PAGER=/bin/cat man perl |  \
+                '$( MANPAGER=/bin/cat PAGER=/bin/cat man perl |  \
                 sed -ne "/perl.*Perl overview/,/perlwin32/p" | \
                 awk "\$NF=2 && \$1 ~ /^perl/ { print \$1 }" )' -- "$cur" ) )
         fi