[lug] Fedora SRPM Practices

[stimits at comcast.net]

Hi,

I'm tracing what looks like a mismatch of header file content from actual library in a fedora 19 glfw and glfw-devel package set. I'm in the process of looking at the actual .src.rpm file, glfw-3.0-0.18.20130517git673d5b5.fc19.src.rpm.

If I "install" this SRPM as a non-root user, using rpm -i, I see this:
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root

I looked up more on mockbuild, and there is a package "mock" which supports the srpm build, and check to see that I already have it installed. So the package for "mock" does not actually create any user "mockbuild" or group, etc.  I do have in my non-root user's home ~/rpmbuild/* with the glfw files.

So my question is, for those who commonly work on SRPMs, do you create a user "mockbuild"? Would it change the rebuild of RPMs by having this devel user added?
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