--- gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre2/src/gensync/gensync	2004-02-08 03:33:46.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/gensync	2004-03-16 11:51:18.456669640 +0100
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 				if x.find("=") == -1 or \
 				       (len(x) and x[0] == "#"):
 					continue
-				(attrib, value) = x.split()
+				(attrib, value) = x.split('=')
+				attrib = attrib.strip().strip('"')
 				value = value.strip().strip('"')
 				if attrib == "rsync_timeout":
 					self.rsync_timeout = value
@@ -89,7 +90,8 @@
 			if x.find("=") == -1 or \
 			       (len(x) and x[0] == "#"):
 				continue
-			attrib,value = x.split("=")
+			(attrib, value) = x.split("=")
+			attrib = attrib.strip().strip('"')
 			value = value.strip().strip('"')
 			if attrib == "id":
 				self.id = value