There's a user on fedora-users mailing list who is upset that dnf5 starts at a negative time, and counts up to 0. See "DNF Stats Issue," <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NOJIIFRBDAQKGJKCCGWFM43INBRF7D4U/>. Please consider adding an option to provide previous behavior of counting down to 0. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run `dnf upgrade`. Actual Results: Start at a negative time, and count up to 0. Expected Results: Start at a positive time, and count down to 0. I did not see an option in the dnf5 man pages, or the upgrade plugin man pages. My apologies if I missed it.
I'm not sure the negative are a feature. Maybe it's a plain bug and instead of adding new configuration option the counting should be changed.
An example. Observe the "-03h18m" value in the last column: # dnf --setopt=optional_metadata_types=filelists makecache --refresh Updating and loading repositories: Fedora 42 on Koji 1% [ ] | 4.9 KiB/s | 854.1 KiB | -03h18m This is bug.
It seems to have been implemented intentionally years ago, but I agree with you and Petr that it's unusual and should be changed. I filed https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/pull/1971.
FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71 (dnf5-5.2.8.1-3.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71
FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-f3bc917e71 (dnf5-5.2.8.1-3.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.