On 17/12/24 12:46, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 09:37 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:Why does dnf show the download, install and cleanup timings starting as negative values?Is it a countdown to estimated time of completion? I can see some logic in doing things that way. Although such things are rarely correct, it could be useful. On the other hand, it's often more useful for diagnosis when you can see something has taken much longer than it ought to, and by how much.
It could be that way but it wasn't that way with dnf4, it was a progress counter of the elapsed time for each process. But to me it is non-sensical when, as I saw this morning, when doing the install of a package the time started off at -35s counting up and when the progress got to 100% but wasn't quite finished the timer displayed as -0s.
Also, as I said previously, if the package install starts off with the timer a -12s and when it finishes the time shows 9s, did it take 9 seconds for the install or did it take 21 seconds?
If they wanted to show an estimated time for the process being done, then show a separate column for that and don't touch the counter that is showing how long the process is actually taking, to me it is completely meaningless to start the process off a say -35s and when it finishes display the time as 0s.
regards,
Steve
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