On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Also see <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332931>. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
