diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/1.global b/src/modules/packages/tests/1.global
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee06ccfe1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/1.global
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+rootMountPoint: /tmp
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/test.yaml b/src/modules/packages/tests/2.job
similarity index 100%
rename from src/modules/packages/test.yaml
rename to src/modules/packages/tests/2.job
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt b/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e343533c
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+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/CMakeTests.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
+#   SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+#
+# 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()
diff --git a/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py b/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa0df2f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/modules/packages/tests/test-pm-pacman.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: no
+#   SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+#
+# Calamares Boilerplate
+import libcalamares
+libcalamares.globalstorage = libcalamares.GlobalStorage(None)
+libcalamares.globalstorage.insert("testing", True)
+
+# Module prep-work
+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()
+
+# Specific PM test
+p = main.PMPacman()
+assert p.pacman_num_retries == 0
+assert p.pacman_disable_timeout == False
+assert p.pacman_needed_only == False