The F16 installation image is two concatenated cpio images:
[xz-compressed dracut initramfs][uncompressed cpio with /squashfs.img]
So to show the contents, use xz with the "--single-stream" option.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742299
CAT=zcat
FILE_T=$(file "$image")
+if echo "test"|xz|xz -dc --single-stream; then
+ XZ_SINGLE_STREAM="--single-stream"
+fi
+
if [[ "$FILE_T" =~ ": gzip compressed data" ]]; then
CAT=zcat
elif [[ "$FILE_T" =~ ": xz compressed data" ]]; then
- CAT=xzcat
+ CAT="xzcat $XZ_SINGLE_STREAM"
elif [[ "$FILE_T" =~ ": XZ compressed data" ]]; then
- CAT=xzcat
+ CAT="xzcat $XZ_SINGLE_STREAM"
elif [[ "$FILE_T" =~ ": data" ]]; then
CAT=lzcat
fi