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<a name="introduction-ideas-transactionid"></a>Transaction IDs</h2></div></div></div>
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A <code class="literal">transaction_id</code> is a unique identifier that
identifies the present or past transaction.
A transaction is made up of one or more sub-transactions.
A transaction has one <code class="literal">role</code> for the entire lifetime,
but the transaction can different values of <code class="literal">status</code>
as the transaction is processed.
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For example, if the user "Installed OpenOffice" and the backend has to:
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update libxml2 as a dependency
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<li class="listitem"><p>
install java as dependency
</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
install openoffice-bin
</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>
install openoffice-clipart
</p></li>
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This is one single transaction with the role <code class="literal">install</code>,
with 4 different sub-transactions.
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The <code class="literal">transaction_id</code> must be of the format
<code class="literal">/job_identifier_data</code> where the daemon controls
all parameters.
<code class="literal">job</code> is a monotonically updating number and is
retained over reboots.
<code class="literal">identifier</code> is random data used by the daemon to
ensure jobs started in parallel cannot race, and also to make a
malicious client program harder to write.
<code class="literal">data</code> can be used for ref-counting in the backend or
for any other purpose.
It is designed to make the life of a backend writer a little bit easier.
An example <code class="literal">transaction_id</code> would be
<code class="literal">/45_dafeca_checkpoint32</code>
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