I will attach a patch to the ebuild and the path to ircd, taken from the SuSE source rpm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: (currently nickname and topic are limited to 9 characters) I tested the patches with net-irc/irc-server-2.10.3_p3.
Created attachment 62479 [details, diff] longnickname support for the ebuild
Created attachment 62480 [details, diff] patch to ircd for long nicknames
nelchael@nelchael ~$ eix irc-server * net-irc/irc-server Available versions: 2.10.3_p3 ~2.10.3_p7 Installed: no Homepage: http://www.irc.org/ Description: RFC compliant IRC server Found 1 matches nelchael@nelchael ~$ You'll need to change the Description to "RFC not-compliant IRC server".
It's an RFC compilant IRC server. To quote RFC1459 - Internet Relay Chat Protocol: 1.2 Clients A client is anything connecting to a server that is not another server. Each client is distinguished from other clients by a unique nickname having a maximum length of nine (9) characters. See the protocol grammar rules for what may and may not be used in a nickname. In addition to the nickname, all servers must have the following information about all clients: the real name of the host that the client is running on, the username of the client on that host, and the server to which the client is connected.
I would like to use long nicknames in ircd, with more than 9 characters.
(In reply to comment #5) > I would like to use long nicknames in ircd, with more than 9 characters. That's not possible with current irc-server - upstream would refuse such patch that break compatibility with RFC. If You must - use it from overlay.
