better debug, handle relative output paths

src/pylorax/__init__.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 # set up logging
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger("pylorax")
+logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
 sh = logging.StreamHandler()
 sh.setLevel(logging.INFO)

src/sbin/lorax

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def main(args):
     opts, args = parser.parse_args()
 
     try:
-        outputdir = args[0]
+        outputdir = os.path.abspath(args[0])
     except IndexError:
         parser.error("missing one or more required arguments")