[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/scripts/pkg-stats: add -N/--needs-update option

[Kadambini Nema]

This commit adds the -N/--needs-update option, disabled by default,
to list only packages with newer upstream versions. All other packages
will be excluded from the HTML or JSON output.

Signed-off-by: Kadambini Nema <kadambini.nema at gmail.com>
---
 support/scripts/pkg-stats | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/support/scripts/pkg-stats b/support/scripts/pkg-stats
index 46b12cd992..c22a8e724f 100755
--- a/support/scripts/pkg-stats
+++ b/support/scripts/pkg-stats
@@ -1280,12 +1280,22 @@ def parse_args():
                         default=[])
     parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', dest='verbose', action='store_true',
                         help='Increase verbosity')
+    parser.add_argument('-N', '--needs-update', dest='needs_update', action='store_true',
+                        help='Only include packages with newer versions available')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if not args.html and not args.json:
         parser.error('at least one of --html or --json (or both) is required')
     return args
 
 
+def is_newer_version_available(pkg):
+    return not (
+        pkg.latest_version['status'] in (RM_API_STATUS_ERROR, RM_API_STATUS_NOT_FOUND) or
+        pkg.latest_version['version'] is None or
+        pkg.latest_version['version'] == pkg.current_version
+    )
+
+
 def __main__():
     global cvecheck
 
@@ -1341,6 +1351,8 @@ def __main__():
     if "cve" not in args.disable and args.nvd_path:
         print("Checking packages CVEs")
         check_package_cves(args.nvd_path, packages)
+    if args.needs_update:
+        packages = [pkg for pkg in packages if is_newer_version_available(pkg)]
     print("Calculate stats")
     stats = calculate_stats(packages)
     if args.html:
-- 
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