diff --git a/lang/ast/structs.go b/lang/ast/structs.go
index a8b844bc..b32e0fe8 100644
--- a/lang/ast/structs.go
+++ b/lang/ast/structs.go
@@ -3403,7 +3403,8 @@ func (obj *StmtProg) importScope(info *interfaces.ImportData, scope *interfaces.
 	if obj.data.Downloader != nil {
 		// run downloader stuff first
 		if err := obj.data.Downloader.Get(info, modulesPath); err != nil {
-			return nil, errwrap.Wrapf(err, "download of `%s` failed", info.Name)
+			obj.data.Logf("download of `%s` failed", info.Name)
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -3773,7 +3774,8 @@ func (obj *StmtProg) SetScope(scope *interfaces.Scope) error {
 		// run the scope importer...
 		importedScope, err := obj.importScope(result, scope)
 		if err != nil {
-			return errwrap.Wrapf(err, "import scope `%s` failed", imp.Name)
+			obj.data.Logf("import scope `%s` failed", imp.Name)
+			return err
 		}
 
 		// read from stored scope which was previously saved in SetScope
diff --git a/lang/download/download.go b/lang/download/download.go
index 9c639cb2..df691a90 100644
--- a/lang/download/download.go
+++ b/lang/download/download.go
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ func (obj *Downloader) Get(info *interfaces.ImportData, modulesPath string) erro
 		if err == nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("module path (`%s`) must be a dir", modulesPath)
 		}
-		if err == os.ErrNotExist {
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
 			return fmt.Errorf("module path (`%s`) must exist", modulesPath)
 		}
 		return errwrap.Wrapf(err, "could not read module path (`%s`)", modulesPath)
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ func (obj *Downloader) Get(info *interfaces.ImportData, modulesPath string) erro
 		if err != nil && err != git.NoErrAlreadyUpToDate {
 			return errwrap.Wrapf(err, "can't pull latest from: `%s`", info.URL)
 		}
+		if err == git.NoErrAlreadyUpToDate {
+			obj.info.Logf("repo already up to date!")
+		}
 	}
 
 	// TODO: checkout requested sha1/tag if one was specified...
diff --git a/lang/interpret_test/TestAstFunc1/unused1.txtar b/lang/interpret_test/TestAstFunc1/unused1.txtar
index 40ba1108..2c9d4c2e 100644
--- a/lang/interpret_test/TestAstFunc1/unused1.txtar
+++ b/lang/interpret_test/TestAstFunc1/unused1.txtar
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ print "unused" {
 	msg => "i'm unused because i'm inside an imported module",
 }
 -- OUTPUT --
-# err: errSetScope: import scope `something.mcl` failed: local import of `something.mcl` failed: module contains unused statements: found stmt: res(print)
+# err: errSetScope: local import of `something.mcl` failed: module contains unused statements: found stmt: res(print)