add a new package metadata variable MDEPENDS for specifying local menuconfig dependencies that do not propagate to other packages

SVN-Revision: 26491

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pl b/scripts/metadata.pl
index 7c60efbf4a..9cb846539f 100755
--- a/scripts/metadata.pl
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pl
@@ -530,6 +530,7 @@ sub print_package_config_category($) {
 				print "\t\tdefault $default\n";
 			}
 			print mconf_depends($pkg->{name}, $pkg->{depends}, 0);
+			print mconf_depends($pkg->{name}, $pkg->{mdepends}, 0);
 			print "\t\thelp\n";
 			print $pkg->{description};
 			print "\n";
diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pm b/scripts/metadata.pm
index 52ca9895e4..6d544c8833 100644
--- a/scripts/metadata.pm
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pm
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 			$pkg->{title} = "";
 			$pkg->{default} = "m if ALL";
 			$pkg->{depends} = [];
+			$pkg->{mdepends} = [];
 			$pkg->{builddepends} = [];
 			$pkg->{buildtypes} = [];
 			$pkg->{subdir} = $subdir;
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 				push @{$package{$vpkg}->{vdepends}}, $pkg->{name};
 			}
 		};
+		/^Menu-Depends: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{mdepends} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];
 		/^Depends: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{depends} = [ split /\s+/, $1 ];
 		/^Build-Variant: \s*([\w\-]+)\s*/ and $pkg->{variant} = $1;
 		/^Build-Only: \s*(.+)\s*$/ and $pkg->{buildonly} = 1;