diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt b/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt
index 6e343533c..9ee9c6682 100644
--- a/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,21 @@
 # We have tests to load (some) of the package-managers specifically, to
 # test their configuration code and implementation. Those tests conventionally
 # live in Python files here in the tests/ directory. Add them.
-foreach(_pm pacman)
-    add_test(
-        NAME configure-packages-${_pm}
-        COMMAND env PYTHONPATH=.: python3 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/test-pm-${_pm}.py
-        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
-    )
-endforeach()
+
+# Pacman (Arch) tests
+set(_pm pacman)
+add_test(
+    NAME configure-packages-${_pm}
+    COMMAND env PYTHONPATH=.: python3 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/test-pm-${_pm}.py
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+)
+add_test(
+    NAME configure-packages-${_pm}-ops-1
+    COMMAND env PYTHONPATH=.: python3 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/test-pm-${_pm}.py ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/pm-pacman-1.yaml 4 1 1
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+)
+add_test(
+    NAME configure-packages-${_pm}-ops-2
+    COMMAND env PYTHONPATH=.: python3 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/test-pm-${_pm}.py ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/pm-pacman-2.yaml 3 0 0
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+)
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-1.yaml b/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-1.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ad048b61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-1.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+backend: pacman
+rootMountPoint: /tmp/mount
+operations: []
+
+pacman:
+    num_retries: 4
+    disable_timeout: yes
+    needed_only: true
+
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-2.yaml b/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-2.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bbf70758
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/pm-pacman-2.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+backend: pacman
+rootMountPoint: /tmp/mount
+operations: []
+
+# Leave some things unspecified
+pacman:
+    num_retries: 3
+
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py b/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py
index aa0df2f7e..f57e2a761 100644
--- a/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py
@@ -11,12 +11,26 @@ from src.modules.packages import main
 
 # .. we don't have a job in this test, so fake one
 class Job(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.configuration = libcalamares.utils.load_yaml("pm-pacman.yaml")
-libcalamares.job = Job()
+    def __init__(self, filename):
+        self.configuration = libcalamares.utils.load_yaml(filename) if filename is not None else dict()
+
+import sys
+if len(sys.argv) > 4:
+    filename = sys.argv[1]
+    retry = int(sys.argv[2])
+    timeout = bool(int(sys.argv[3]))
+    needed = bool(int(sys.argv[4]))
+else:
+    filename = None
+    retry = 0
+    timeout = False
+    needed = False
+
+libcalamares.utils.warning("Expecting {!s} retry={!s} timeout={!s} needed={!s}".format(filename, retry, timeout, needed))
 
 # Specific PM test
+libcalamares.job = Job(filename)
 p = main.PMPacman()
-assert p.pacman_num_retries == 0
-assert p.pacman_disable_timeout == False
-assert p.pacman_needed_only == False
+assert p.pacman_num_retries == retry, "{!r} vs {!r}".format(p.pacman_num_retries, retry)
+assert p.pacman_disable_timeout == timeout
+assert p.pacman_needed_only == needed