diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pl b/scripts/metadata.pl
index 54341c458f..48b1b7a960 100755
--- a/scripts/metadata.pl
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use FindBin;
 use lib "$FindBin::Bin";
 use strict;
 use metadata;
+use Getopt::Long;
 
 my %board;
 
@@ -871,6 +872,7 @@ sub gen_version_filtered_list() {
 }
 
 sub parse_command() {
+	GetOptions("ignore=s", \@ignore);
 	my $cmd = shift @ARGV;
 	for ($cmd) {
 		/^target_config$/ and return gen_target_config();
@@ -895,6 +897,8 @@ Available Commands:
 	$0 package_licensefull [file] 		Package license information (full list)
 	$0 version_filter [patchver] [list...]	Filter list of version tagged strings
 
+Options:
+	--ignore <name>				Ignore the source package <name>
 EOF
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/metadata.pm b/scripts/metadata.pm
index 09273df3ad..0ed3524e81 100644
--- a/scripts/metadata.pm
+++ b/scripts/metadata.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package metadata;
 use base 'Exporter';
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-our @EXPORT = qw(%package %srcpackage %category %subdir %preconfig %features %overrides clear_packages parse_package_metadata parse_target_metadata get_multiline);
+our @EXPORT = qw(%package %srcpackage %category %subdir %preconfig %features %overrides clear_packages parse_package_metadata parse_target_metadata get_multiline @ignore);
 
 our %package;
 our %preconfig;
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ our %category;
 our %subdir;
 our %features;
 our %overrides;
+our @ignore;
 
 sub get_multiline {
 	my $fh = shift;
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 	my $subdir;
 	my $src;
 	my $override;
+	my %ignore = map { $_ => 1 } @ignore;
 
 	open FILE, "<$file" or do {
 		warn "Cannot open '$file': $!\n";
@@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ sub parse_package_metadata($) {
 			$overrides{$src} = 1;
 		};
 		next unless $src;
+		next if $ignore{$src};
 		/^Package:\s*(.+?)\s*$/ and do {
 			undef $feature;
 			$pkg = {};