package: add spack.package.possible_dependencies method

- this version allows getting possible dependencies of multiple packages
  or specs at once.

- New method handles calling `PackageBase.possible_dependencies` multiple
  times and passing `visited` dict around.

lib/spack/spack/package.py

@@ -2663,6 +2663,34 @@ def dump_packages(spec, path):
             spack.repo.path.dump_provenance(node, dest_pkg_dir)
 
 
+def possible_dependencies(*pkg_or_spec, **kwargs):
+    """Get the possible dependencies of a number of packages.
+
+    See ``PackageBase.possible_dependencies`` for details.
+    """
+    transitive = kwargs.get('transitive', True)
+    expand_virtuals = kwargs.get('expand_virtuals', True)
+    deptype = kwargs.get('deptype', 'all')
+
+    packages = []
+    for pos in pkg_or_spec:
+        if isinstance(pos, PackageMeta):
+            pkg = pos
+        elif isinstance(pos, spack.spec.Spec):
+            pkg = pos.package
+        else:
+            pkg = spack.spec.Spec(pos).package
+
+        packages.append(pkg)
+
+    visited = {}
+    for pkg in packages:
+        pkg.possible_dependencies(
+            transitive, expand_virtuals, deptype, visited)
+
+    return visited
+
+
 def print_pkg(message):
     """Outputs a message with a package icon."""
     from llnl.util.tty.color import cwrite

lib/spack/spack/test/package_class.py

@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
 static DSL metadata for packages.
 """
 
+import pytest
 import spack.repo
 
 
-def test_possible_dependencies(mock_packages):
+@pytest.fixture
-    mpileaks = spack.repo.get('mpileaks')
+def mpileaks_possible_deps(mock_packages):
     mpi_names = [spec.name for spec in spack.repo.path.providers_for('mpi')]
-
+    possible = {
-    assert mpileaks.possible_dependencies(expand_virtuals=True) == {
         'callpath': set(['dyninst'] + mpi_names),
         'dyninst': set(['libdwarf', 'libelf']),
         'fake': set(),
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ def test_possible_dependencies(mock_packages):
         'multi-provider-mpi': set(),
         'zmpi': set(['fake']),
     }
+    return possible
+
+
+def test_possible_dependencies(mock_packages, mpileaks_possible_deps):
+    mpileaks = spack.repo.get('mpileaks')
+    assert (mpileaks.possible_dependencies(expand_virtuals=True) ==
+            mpileaks_possible_deps)
 
     assert mpileaks.possible_dependencies(expand_virtuals=False) == {
         'callpath': set(['dyninst']),
@@ -59,3 +66,17 @@ def test_possible_dependencies_with_deptypes(mock_packages):
         'dtbuild1': set(['dtlink2']),
         'dtlink2': set(),
     }
+
+
+def test_possible_dependencies_with_multiple_classes(
+        mock_packages, mpileaks_possible_deps):
+    pkgs = ['dt-diamond', 'mpileaks']
+    expected = mpileaks_possible_deps.copy()
+    expected.update({
+        'dt-diamond': set(['dt-diamond-left', 'dt-diamond-right']),
+        'dt-diamond-left': set(['dt-diamond-bottom']),
+        'dt-diamond-right': set(['dt-diamond-bottom']),
+        'dt-diamond-bottom': set(),
+    })
+
+    assert spack.package.possible_dependencies(*pkgs) == expected