(non maintainer commit) don't run fetchmail as root - create new fetchmail user instead, long standing bug in Gentoo. Fixed by Brian Verkley in bug 124387

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diff --git a/net-mail/fetchmail/ChangeLog b/net-mail/fetchmail/ChangeLog
index c0c9012dcbbc..90066049be1e 100644
--- a/net-mail/fetchmail/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 # ChangeLog for net-mail/fetchmail
 # Copyright 2002-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/fetchmail/ChangeLog,v 1.154 2009/01/11 15:56:08 dertobi123 Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/fetchmail/ChangeLog,v 1.155 2009/02/20 04:26:15 darkside Exp $
+
+*fetchmail-6.3.9-r1 (20 Feb 2009)
+
+  20 Feb 2009; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> +files/fetchmail.new,
+  +fetchmail-6.3.9-r1.ebuild:
+  (non maintainer commit) don't run fetchmail as root - create new fetchmail
+  user instead, long standing bug in Gentoo. Fixed by Brian Verkley in bug
+  124387
 
   11 Jan 2009; Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>
   -files/fetchmail-6.3.7-poll-again.patch, -fetchmail-6.3.6.ebuild,
diff --git a/net-mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.9-r1.ebuild b/net-mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.9-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc5062ef52b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.9-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.9-r1.ebuild,v 1.1 2009/02/20 04:26:15 darkside Exp $
+
+inherit multilib python eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="the legendary remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility"
+HOMEPAGE="http://fetchmail.berlios.de"
+SRC_URI="mirror://berlios/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2 public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="ssl nls ipv6 kerberos krb4 hesiod"
+
+RDEPEND="hesiod? ( net-dns/hesiod )
+	ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6 )
+	kerberos? ( app-crypt/mit-krb5 )
+	nls? ( virtual/libintl )
+	elibc_FreeBSD? ( sys-libs/com_err )
+	virtual/python"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	enewgroup ${PN}
+	enewuser ${PN} -1 -1 /var/lib/${PN} ${PN}
+}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	# this patch fixes bug #34788 (ticho@gentoo.org 2004-09-03)
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-6.2.5-broken-headers.patch
+
+	# dont compile during src_install
+	: > "${S}"/py-compile
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+#	PYTHON=: \
+		econf \
+		--disable-dependency-tracking \
+		--enable-RPA \
+		--enable-NTLM \
+		--enable-SDPS \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_enable ipv6 inet6) \
+		$(use_with kerberos gssapi) \
+		$(use_with kerberos kerberos5) \
+		$(use_with krb4 kerberos) \
+		$(use_with ssl) \
+		$(use_with hesiod) \
+		${myconf} || die "Configuration failed."
+	# wont compile reliably on smp (mkennedy@gentoo.org 2003-11-12)
+	emake || die "Compilation failed."
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	# dir for pidfile
+	dodir /var/run/${PN} || die "dodir failed"
+	keepdir /var/run/${PN}
+	fowners ${PN}:${PN} /var/run/${PN} || die "fowners failed"
+
+	# fetchmail's homedir (holds fetchmail's .fetchids)
+	dodir /var/lib/${PN} || die "dodir failed"
+	keepdir /var/lib/${PN}
+	fowners ${PN}:${PN} /var/lib/${PN} || die "fowners failed"
+	fperms 700 /var/lib/${PN} || die "fperms failed"
+
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
+	python_need_rebuild
+
+	dohtml *.html
+
+	dodoc FAQ FEATURES NEWS NOTES README README.NTLM README.SSL TODO || die
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/fetchmail.new fetchmail || die
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/conf.d-fetchmail fetchmail || die
+
+	docinto contrib
+	local f
+	for f in contrib/* ; do
+		[ -f "${f}" ] && dodoc "${f}"
+	done
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	python_version
+	python_mod_optimize /usr/$(get_libdir)/python${PYVER}/site-packages
+
+	if ! python -c "import Tkinter" >/dev/null 2>&1
+	then
+		elog
+		elog "You will not be able to use fetchmailconf(1), because you"
+		elog "don't seem to have Python with tkinter support."
+		elog
+		elog "If you want to be able to use fetchmailconf(1), do the following:"
+		elog "  1.  Add 'tk' to the USE variable in /etc/make.conf."
+		elog "  2.  (Re-)merge Python."
+		elog
+	fi
+
+	elog "Please see /etc/conf.d/fetchmail if you want to adjust"
+	elog "the polling delay used by the fetchmail init script."
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	python_version
+	python_mod_cleanup /usr/$(get_libdir)/python${PYVER}/site-packages
+}
diff --git a/net-mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.new b/net-mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.new
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4646fa4ccaf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.new
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/sbin/runscript
+
+pidfile=/var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid
+
+depend() {
+	need net
+	use mta
+}
+
+checkconfig() {
+        if [ ! -f /etc/fetchmailrc ]; then
+                eerror "Configuration file /etc/fetchmailrc not found"
+                return 1
+        fi
+}
+
+start() {
+        checkconfig || return 1
+
+        ebegin "Starting fetchmail"
+        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
+		--chuid fetchmail --exec /usr/bin/fetchmail \
+		-- -d ${polling_period} -f /etc/fetchmailrc \
+		--pidfile ${pidfile} -i /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
+        eend ${?}
+}
+
+stop() {
+        ebegin "Stopping fetchmail"
+        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${pidfile}
+        eend ${?}
+}
+