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* https://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2015/07/06/tardelta-generate-a-tarball-of-differences-between-two-tarballs/
* https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki
## Outlook
The completion of the described container build system will benefit greatly to how container images can be shared and deployed.
### Trusted Containers by reproducibility
Trusting container images has been hard. Being able to reproduce and verify the builds improves this.
### Obsolete Container-Vulnerabilities Scans
Vulnerabilities scans are only necessary if it's unknown what the container image contains. With the new build system the build specification allows to inspect the included container images much more efficiently. Image vendors can directly track contained packages and their CVEs instead of relying on posteriori scans.
### Automatic Container Updates
When identified, regular and security updates to 3rd party packages can trigger rebuilds as well as changed source files of 1st party applications. The update circle can be closed by automatically deploying new containers triggered by the updated images.
Complete automation might be difficult in real-world deployments because software updates sometimes require configuration changes.