apache-solr packaging?

I've got some people who want to test the apache-solr-1.4.1 package on
top of Tomcat. So far, so good. But I'm looking at bundling it
properly, and having awkwardness. I've resolved most of the
dependencies, but even if I install the "colt" package from JPackage,
it insists on reaching out to the wire and downloading various
utilities like http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/colt/colt/1.2.0/colt-1.2.0.jar.
This is, of course, unacceptable for an RPM build setup.

Does anyone have a better approach to this, or has encountered this
kind of issue? I can script around it by various means, but wonder if
someone has a better approach.