Why does `rpm` show 3 httpd packages, and which one provides the real httpd?

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Published on 2013-10-31T18:47:27Z Indexed on 2013/10/31 21:58 UTC
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I ran yum update on my CentOS5 webserver a few days ago. Today I just noticed that I have 3 httpd-* rpms!

How can I end up with three RPMs for httpd (My other servers only have one httpd rpm). I want to make sure that my server has a patched, updated version of /usr/sbin/httpd. How can I tell which one of these packages provides the httpd binary at /usr/sbin/httpd?

[root@node1 ~]# rpm -q httpd
httpd-2.2.3-76.el5.centos
httpd-2.2.3-78.el5.centos
httpd-2.2.3-83.el5.centos

[root@node1 ~]# /usr/sbin/httpd -V |grep version
Server version: Apache/2.2.3

[root@node1 ~]# rpm -q httpd-2.2.3-76.el5.centos --list |grep -w /usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd.event
/usr/sbin/httpd.worker
[root@node1 ~]# rpm -q httpd-2.2.3-78.el5.centos --list |grep -w /usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd.event
/usr/sbin/httpd.worker
[root@node1 ~]# rpm -q httpd-2.2.3-83.el5.centos --list |grep -w /usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd.event
/usr/sbin/httpd.worker
[root@node1 ~]# 

root@node1 ~]# rpm -q --provides httpd |grep -w httpd
config(httpd) = 2.2.3-76.el5.centos
httpd-mmn = 20051115
httpd = 2.2.3-76.el5.centos
config(httpd) = 2.2.3-78.el5.centos
httpd-mmn = 20051115
httpd = 2.2.3-78.el5.centos
config(httpd) = 2.2.3-83.el5.centos
httpd-mmn = 20051115
httpd = 2.2.3-83.el5.centos

Update: Answering Mark Wagner's questions:

[root@node1 ~]# rpm -q -f /usr/sbin/httpd 
httpd-2.2.3-76.el5.centos
httpd-2.2.3-78.el5.centos
httpd-2.2.3-83.el5.centos
[root@node1 ~]# rpm -V httpd-2.2.3-83.el5.centos
S.5.....  c /etc/logrotate.d/httpd
S.5.....  c /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
....L...    /var/www

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