let's say I want to install all of my packages in /opt2. Will the first
> RPM I install be considered the owner of the /opt2 directory?
Packages can own entire directories, or some or all of the files within them. It is easy to carelessly give too wide a scope, and you will then get conflicts.
See: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/build.html#FILES Shane -- Shane Voss, Computing Officer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
