I don't know on which files your RPMs are conflicting, but if all of them are "just" man pages, then you probably can simply overwrite the new ones with the old ones with rpm -i -replacefiles. So I can have different versions of the same gem installed. I am packaging for example ruby gems as relocatable RPMs at work. If the files are not conflicting, then you can just install different versions with rpm -i ( zypper in can not install different versions of the same RPM). You can then tell rpm to install the specific RPM to a different directory. If you really need different versions of the same RPM, then the RPM must be relocatable. But this will only work, if none of the to be installed RPMs depends exactly on the old version. You can remove the old RPM and rpm will resolve the dependency with the newer version of the installed RPM. It will always overwrite the files with the "latest RPM installed" whichever order you do it in. You must manually remove the unneeded RPMs from the list (or directory).
rpm will not ignore RPMs listed for installation. If you tell rpm to install all RPMs from some directory, then it does exactly this. The -force option will reinstall already installed packages or overwrite already installed files from other packages.
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