Trying to understand OVAL data In the redhat OVAL data I can see XML's like this, <criteria operator="AND"> <criterion comment="bind is earlier than 32:9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.4" test_ref="oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20170063030"/> <criterion comment="bind is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key" test_ref="oval:com.redhat.rhsa:tst:20100975006"/> </criteria> This is clearly used for version comparing, but the version above in the comment is `32:9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.4` Does anyone know what `32:` means?

The `32:` in the XML comment corresponds to the epoch tag of the bind RPM.