As a proper freesmartphone.org distro, we want persistent data in /var/lib/
Index: frameworkd/framework/persist.py
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--- frameworkd.orig/framework/persist.py	2009-02-02 20:10:50.000000000 +0100
+++ frameworkd/framework/persist.py	2009-02-02 22:17:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger( MODULE_NAME )
 
-from framework.config import config, rootdir
-rootdir = os.path.join( rootdir, 'persist' )
+from framework.config import config
+rootdir = "/var/lib/freesmartphone"
 format = config.getValue( "frameworkd", "persist_format", "pickle" )
 
 if format == "pickle":