diff --git a/test/cases/ftpdir-cleanup.bats b/test/cases/ftpdir-cleanup.bats
index fd485f3..8c713c6 100644
--- a/test/cases/ftpdir-cleanup.bats
+++ b/test/cases/ftpdir-cleanup.bats
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ __checkRepoRemovedPackage() {
 	local pkgname
 
 	for pkgname in $(__getPackageNamesFromPackageBase ${pkgbase}); do
-		[[ ! -f ${FTP_BASE}/${PKGPOOL}/${pkgname}-*${PKGEXT} ]]
-		[[ ! -f ${FTP_BASE}/${repo}/os/${repoarch}/${pkgname}-*${PKGEXT} ]]
+		! __isGlobfile "${FTP_BASE}/${PKGPOOL}/${pkgname}"-*"${PKGEXT}"
+		! __isGlobfile "${FTP_BASE}/${repo}/os/${repoarch}/${pkgname}"-*"${PKGEXT}"
 	done
 }
 
diff --git a/test/cases/sourceballs.bats b/test/cases/sourceballs.bats
index a0a2999..df7ddd4 100644
--- a/test/cases/sourceballs.bats
+++ b/test/cases/sourceballs.bats
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ load ../lib/common
 
 __checkSourcePackage() {
 	local pkgbase=$1
-	[ -r ${FTP_BASE}/${SRCPOOL}/${pkgbase}-*${SRCEXT} ]
+	__isGlobfile "${FTP_BASE}/${SRCPOOL}/${pkgbase}"-*"${SRCEXT}"
 }
 
 __checkRemovedSourcePackage() {
 	local pkgbase=$1
-	[ ! -r ${FTP_BASE}/${SRCPOOL}/${pkgbase}-*${SRCEXT} ]
+	! __isGlobfile "${FTP_BASE}/${SRCPOOL}/${pkgbase}"-*"${SRCEXT}"
 }
 
 @test "create simple package sourceballs" {
diff --git a/test/lib/common.bash b/test/lib/common.bash
index 5411641..6e2b3df 100644
--- a/test/lib/common.bash
+++ b/test/lib/common.bash
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ __getCheckSum() {
 	echo "${result%% *}"
 }
 
+# Proxy function to check if a file exists. Using [[ -f ... ]] directly is not
+# always wanted because we might want to expand bash globs first. This way we
+# can pass unquoted globs to __isGlobfile() and have them expanded as function
+# arguments before being checked.
+#
+# This is a copy of db-functions is_globfile
+__isGlobfile() {
+	[[ -f $1 ]]
+}
+
 __buildPackage() {
 	local pkgdest=${1:-.}
 	local p
@@ -203,7 +213,7 @@ checkPackageDB() {
 			for repoarch in ${repoarches[@]}; do
 				# Only 'any' packages can be found in repos of both arches
 				if [[ $pkgarch != any ]]; then
-					if [[ $pkgarch != ${repoarch} ]]; then
+					if [[ $pkgarch != "$repoarch" ]]; then
 						continue
 					fi
 				fi