In preparation for adding bzip2 support, split the type check into a
separate function. Make all offsets relative to the begin of a chunk
such that it is easier to recognize the position without having to
add up all offsets. Some comments are added to describe the fields.

There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1420566495-13284-11-git-send-email-peter@lekensteyn.nl
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>