diff --git a/dracut/anaconda-lib.sh b/dracut/anaconda-lib.sh
index e91e7f65137..a03f2356a73 100755
--- a/dracut/anaconda-lib.sh
+++ b/dracut/anaconda-lib.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ config_get() {
             \[*\]*) cursec="${line#[}"; cursec="${cursec%%]*}" ;;
             *=*) k="${line%%=*}"; v="${line#*=}" ;;
         esac
+        # trim leading and trailing whitespace characters
+        k=$(echo "$k" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//')
+        v=$(echo "$v" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//')
+
         if [ "$cursec" = "$section" ] && [ "$k" == "$key" ]; then
             echo "$v"
             break
@@ -108,6 +112,10 @@ anaconda_net_root() {
     local repo="$1"
     info "anaconda: fetching stage2 from $repo"
 
+    # Remove last `/` from repo to enable cunstructs like ...os/../BaseOS/image/install.img
+    # Otherwise curl will fail to work with `...os//../BaseOS...`
+    repo=${repo%/}
+
     # Try to get the local path to stage2 from treeinfo.
     treeinfo=$(fetch_url "$repo/.treeinfo" 2> /tmp/treeinfo_err) && \
         stage2=$(config_get stage2 mainimage < "$treeinfo")