[Buildroot] [git commit] support/scripts: prepare handling virtual packages in generated lists

[Thomas Petazzoni]

commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=e49d4f0c378960e3895381eea78ada48cca310fb
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Prepare to tell apart real packages from virtual packages.

Currently, the code implicitly recognises only real packages, and
discards virtual packages, because of the heuristic used to recognise
whether a symbol is a package:

  - for real package:
    - symbols  : BR2_PACKAGE_FOO
    - .mk files: foo.mk
  - for virtual packages:
    - symbols  : BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_FOO
    - .mk files: foo.mk

The current heuristic is to check for each symbol if a corresponding .mk
file exists, by stripping 'BR2_PACKAGE_' from the beginning of the symbol,
converting the result to lowercase, and checking if a .mk file exists.

So, as a side effect, it completely misses the virtual packages [*], which
is pretty nice since we get a list with only real packages that the user
can indeed select and see in the menuconfig.

[*] Except for 'cryptodev' and 'jpeg' which are both virtual packages and
normal packages. Except they are not normal packages, they are used to
display a choice of the implementation to use. This case will be fixed in
follow-up patches.

Since we'll soon need to also output the table of virtual packages, we
need to teach the _is_package() function to recognise them as well.

This patch is the first step into that direction: it introduces a new
function _is_real_package() that is just a wrapper to _is_package(), which
gains a new parameter, being the type of packages to filter on.

No behavioural change is made in this patch, it is just a preparatory
patch.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py |   12 +++++++++---
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py b/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
index b33fcf0..e234ef1 100644
--- a/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
+++ b/support/scripts/gen-manual-lists.py
@@ -183,14 +183,14 @@ class Buildroot:
         'target-packages': {
             'filename': "package-list",
             'root_menu': "Target packages",
-            'filter': "_is_package",
+            'filter': "_is_real_package",
             'sorted': True,
             'sub_menu': True,
         },
         'host-packages': {
             'filename': "host-package-list",
             'root_menu': "Host utilities",
-            'filter': "_is_package",
+            'filter': "_is_real_package",
             'sorted': True,
             'sub_menu': False,
         },
@@ -238,11 +238,14 @@ class Buildroot:
         return bool([ symbol for x in symbol.get_referenced_symbols()
             if x.get_name().startswith(self._deprecated.get_name()) ])
 
-    def _is_package(self, symbol):
+    def _is_package(self, symbol, type='real'):
         """ Return True if the symbol is a package or a host package, otherwise
         False.
 
         :param symbol:  The symbol to check
+        :param type:    Limit to 'real' or 'virtual' types of packages,
+                        with 'real' being the default.
+                        Note: only 'real' is (implictly) handled for now
 
         """
         if not self.re_pkg_prefix.match(symbol.get_name()):
@@ -280,6 +283,9 @@ class Buildroot:
                 return True
         return False
 
+    def _is_real_package(self, symbol):
+        return self._is_package(symbol, 'real')
+
     def _get_pkg_name(self, symbol):
         """ Return the package name of the specified symbol.