possible_dependencies() now reports missing dependencies

- Add an optional argument so that `possible_dependencies()` will report
  missing dependencies.
- Add a test to ensure it works.
- Ignore missing dependencies in `possible_dependencies()` by default.

lib/spack/spack/package.py

@@ -556,16 +556,19 @@ def installed_upstream(self):
     @classmethod
     def possible_dependencies(
             cls, transitive=True, expand_virtuals=True, deptype='all',
-            visited=None):
+            visited=None, missing=None):
         """Return dict of possible dependencies of this package.
 
         Args:
-            transitive (bool): return all transitive dependencies if True,
-                only direct dependencies if False.
-            expand_virtuals (bool): expand virtual dependencies into all
-                possible implementations.
-            deptype (str or tuple): dependency types to consider
-            visited (set): set of names of dependencies visited so far.
+            transitive (bool, optional): return all transitive dependencies if
+                True, only direct dependencies if False (default True)..
+            expand_virtuals (bool, optional): expand virtual dependencies into
+                all possible implementations (default True)
+            deptype (str or tuple, optional): dependency types to consider
+            visited (dicct, optional): dict of names of dependencies visited so
+                far, mapped to their immediate dependencies' names.
+            missing (dict, optional): dict to populate with packages and their
+                *missing* dependencies.
 
         Returns:
             (dict): dictionary mapping dependency names to *their*
@@ -576,7 +579,12 @@ def possible_dependencies(
         *immediate* dependencies. If ``expand_virtuals`` is ``False``,
         virtual package names wil be inserted as keys mapped to empty
         sets of dependencies.  Virtuals, if not expanded, are treated as
-        though they have no immediate dependencies
+        though they have no immediate dependencies.
+
+        Missing dependencies by default are ignored, but if a
+        missing dict is provided, it will be populated with package names
+        mapped to any dependencies they have that are in no
+        repositories. This is only populated if transitive is True.
 
         Note: the returned dict *includes* the package itself.
 
@@ -586,6 +594,9 @@ def possible_dependencies(
         if visited is None:
             visited = {cls.name: set()}
 
+        if missing is None:
+            missing = {cls.name: set()}
+
         for name, conditions in cls.dependencies.items():
             # check whether this dependency could be of the type asked for
             types = [dep.type for cond, dep in conditions.items()]
@@ -609,12 +620,24 @@ def possible_dependencies(
 
             # recursively traverse dependencies
             for dep_name in dep_names:
-                if dep_name not in visited:
-                    visited.setdefault(dep_name, set())
-                    if transitive:
-                        dep_cls = spack.repo.path.get_pkg_class(dep_name)
-                        dep_cls.possible_dependencies(
-                            transitive, expand_virtuals, deptype, visited)
+                if dep_name in visited:
+                    continue
+
+                visited.setdefault(dep_name, set())
+
+                # skip the rest if not transitive
+                if not transitive:
+                    continue
+
+                try:
+                    dep_cls = spack.repo.path.get_pkg_class(dep_name)
+                except spack.repo.UnknownPackageError:
+                    # log unknown packages
+                    missing.setdefault(cls.name, set()).add(dep_name)
+                    continue
+
+                dep_cls.possible_dependencies(
+                    transitive, expand_virtuals, deptype, visited, missing)
 
         return visited
 
@@ -2671,6 +2694,7 @@ def possible_dependencies(*pkg_or_spec, **kwargs):
     transitive = kwargs.get('transitive', True)
     expand_virtuals = kwargs.get('expand_virtuals', True)
     deptype = kwargs.get('deptype', 'all')
+    missing = kwargs.get('missing')
 
     packages = []
     for pos in pkg_or_spec:
@@ -2686,7 +2710,7 @@ def possible_dependencies(*pkg_or_spec, **kwargs):
     visited = {}
     for pkg in packages:
         pkg.possible_dependencies(
-            transitive, expand_virtuals, deptype, visited)
+            transitive, expand_virtuals, deptype, visited, missing)
 
     return visited
 

lib/spack/spack/test/package_class.py

@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ def test_possible_dependencies(mock_packages, mpileaks_possible_deps):
     }
 
 
+def test_possible_dependencies_missing(mock_packages):
+    md = spack.repo.get("missing-dependency")
+    missing = {}
+    md.possible_dependencies(transitive=True, missing=missing)
+    assert missing["missing-dependency"] == set([
+        "this-is-a-missing-dependency"
+    ])
+
+
 def test_possible_dependencies_with_deptypes(mock_packages):
     dtbuild1 = spack.repo.get('dtbuild1')
 

var/spack/repos/builtin.mock/packages/missing-dependency/package.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class MissingDependency(Package):
+    """Package with a dependency that does not exist."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.example.com"
+    url      = "http://www.example.com/missing-dependency-1.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.0', '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef')
+
+    # intentionally missing to test possible_dependencies()
+    depends_on("this-is-a-missing-dependency")
+
+    # this one is a "real" mock dependency
+    depends_on("a")