[MacPorts] #72283: Missing ntfsprog tools?

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#72283: Missing ntfsprog tools?
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 Reporter:  Haravikk  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
Component:  ports     |    Version:
 Keywords:            |       Port:  ntfs-3g
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 ntfs-3g comes bundled with ntfsprogs (a set of utilities for working with
 NTFS drives) however it appears to be missing some of them:

 * ntfsfallocate
 * ntfsrecover
 * ntfstruncate
 * ntfswipe

 The man pages for all of these are present under
 /opt/local/share/man/man8, but there is no sign of the programs
 themselves. Interestingly there are also man pages for a few other
 programs not mentioned by ntfsprogs (ntfsdecrypt, ntfssecaudit, and
 ntfsusermap, so these programs also appear to be missing from ntfs-3g).

 Is this a purposeful or accidental omission? I didn't notice anything in
 the documentation about any tools being removed (e.g- not compatible with
 macOS for whatever reason), so it seems like it might have been a mistake?
 All the documentation says is that ntfs-3g includes ntfsprogs (for which
 there does not exist a separate package).

 It would be great to see the missing tools added to this package to
 complete it, or perhaps even see a complete ntfsprogs spun off into its
 own package upon which this one could then depend.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/72283>
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