diff --git a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c2f61dcb868
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+case "${ACTION}" in
+post)
+        cat <<_EOF
+=======================================================================
+
+Some optional packages must be installed for additional functionality:
+
+ - unrar: for automatic extraction of rar archives
+
+
+By default, SABnzbd will listen on 127.0.0.1:8080 - This can be
+changed with the -s option. See 'sabnzbd --help' for more information
+on configuration directives.
+
+All SABnzbd settings are stored in \$HOME/.sabnzbd. Editing global
+configuration files should not be necessary.
+
+=======================================================================
+_EOF
+        ;;
+esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/patches/sabnzbd-00-system-configobj-feedparser-gntp.patch b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/patches/sabnzbd-00-system-configobj-feedparser-gntp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..48962f771f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/patches/sabnzbd-00-system-configobj-feedparser-gntp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+--- a/sabnzbd/config.py
++++ b/sabnzbd/config.py
+@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ import os
+ import logging
+ import threading
+ import shutil
++
++import configobj
++
+ import sabnzbd.misc
+ from sabnzbd.constants import CONFIG_VERSION, NORMAL_PRIORITY, DEFAULT_PRIORITY
+ from sabnzbd.utils import listquote
+-from sabnzbd.utils import configobj
+ from sabnzbd.decorators import synchronized
+ 
+ CONFIG_LOCK = threading.Lock()
+
+--- a/sabnzbd/rss.py
++++ b/sabnzbd/rss.py
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ from sabnzbd.misc import cat_convert, sanitize_foldername, wildcard_to_re, cat_t
+ import sabnzbd.emailer as emailer
+ from sabnzbd.encoding import latin1, unicoder, xml_name
+ 
+-import sabnzbd.utils.feedparser as feedparser
++import feedparser
+ 
+ __RSS = None  # Global pointer to RSS-scanner instance
+ 
+--- a/sabnzbd/growler.py
++++ b/sabnzbd/growler.py
+@@ -31,7 +31,14 @@ import sabnzbd
+ import sabnzbd.cfg
+ from sabnzbd.encoding import unicoder, latin1
+ from sabnzbd.constants import NOTIFY_KEYS
+-from gntp import GNTPRegister
++
++try:
++    # <= version 0.6
++    from gntp import GNTPRegister
++except ImportError:
++    # >= version 1.0
++    from gntp.core import GNTPRegister
++
+ from gntp.notifier import GrowlNotifier
+ try:
+     import Growl
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4fff65ccc9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Template file for 'sabnzbd'
+pkgname=sabnzbd
+version=0.7.17
+revision=1
+patch_args="-p1"
+wrksrc="SABnzbd-${version}"
+depends="par2cmdline python-cheetah python-configobj python-feedparser python-gntp python-openssl python-yenc python>=2.7 unzip"
+maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
+# sabnzbd itself is GPL, but it bundles libraries that are covered by
+# BSD, LGPL-2 and MIT. In combination, that makes this package GPL.
+license="GPL"
+homepage="http://sabnzbd.org/"
+short_desc="SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python"
+distfiles="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sabnzbdplus/SABnzbd-${version}-src.tar.gz"
+checksum=a501517dbaf161deab2153118ff3b44512ee1d8984c3603bf17c593cf080eb09
+
+pre_install() {
+	rm -rf gntp sabnzbd/utils/{feedparser,configobj}.py
+	rm -f licenses/License-{feedparser,configobj,gntp,Python}.txt
+	rm -rf solaris
+
+	# sabnzbd bundles a heavily modified version of cherrypy. It's
+	# uncertain what base version they use, or where each individual
+	# patch came from, so using upstream cherrypy isn't an option.
+
+	# sabnzbd also bundles a variety of small libraries, some of which
+	# haven't been maintained since 2006. There may be no point to
+	# packaging them separately.
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
+	mv licenses/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
+	mv COPYRIGHT.txt ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
+	rmdir licenses
+
+	vmkdir usr/share/sabnzbd
+	mv * ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/sabnzbd/
+
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/
+	ln -fs /usr/share/sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/sabnzbd
+}