idiom for tarball handling?

[Hal Wine <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to wrap a tarball, which contains installation scripts, in an 
RPM. (It's a hardware vendor's SNMP installation, not something I can 
intelligently repackage as a "pure" RPM)

I need to delete the tarball after installation, as it might be on a 
system that isn't that vendor's hardware (licensing issues).

Installation is fine, but I run into problems after that:

rpm -V pkg fails, as I've removed the payload.

if I mark the tarball %config(missingok), so rpm -V is happy, then 
updates break unless I use rpm -U --allfiles. That's very brittle, as I 
can't check for the option in the %pre, afaik.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
--Hal

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