Comment # 1 on bug 1213277 from Michael Schröder

The manifest reading code in rpm-4.18 is a bit... peculiar. It works by joining
all the lines into one string and then splitting them again via a call to popt.
Popt knows about quoting, so the single quote of the "didn't" is matched
against the next single quote resulting in a quite long string.

This string is then fed into rpm's internal glob implementation, which is a
very outdated copy from the glibc implementation. This code then tries to
expand any {} constructs, leading the quite a bit of recursion. Plus, the
patterns are using stack space via "char onealt[strlen(pattern) - 1];". So it's
not surprising that this runs into the stack limit.

All this already has been fixed in rpm-upstream, so the upcoming rpm update for
Fectory will no longer run into this. And as this is not a security problem I
will not try to backport the (quite big) changeset.