Help Wanted With Packaging INGRES

[Susan Miller]

Fellow INGRES VARs:

We are packaging an application with INGRES 6.3 on Pyramid 
Osx 5.1 and were wondering if there are elegant ways to create 
a single tape of both INGRES and the application; without driving 
our support people crazy during installation.  

I am advised that INGRES VAX/VMS VARS create a subdirectory under 
ingres and copy all their application code into this subdirectory 
before writing everything to a single tape. Anyone else with better 
alternatives and suggestions for Unix platforms?! Anyone using cpio?!  

Also, has anyone found an elegant way to prevent end-user access to 
all the enabled INGRES modules (QBF, VIFRED, RBF, RW) included with the 
Embedded INGRES!?! I am looking for a solution other than changing 
the file protection or removing the executables from ingres/bin.  The 
VAR authorization string associated with Embedded INGRES does allow 
access to these modules which will create security problems for our 
application.   

Thanx very much for all the help.  

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