Another detail that might be worth mentioning...
Running "aptitude update" to create the /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates file
seems to ONLY work from a tty. From a connection with no tty (such as
one initiated via ansible), it does not seem to create the file.
I had to work around things by making a
Public bug reported:
When running an 'aptitude update' for the very first time, it seems to
clear up any hold flags that were previous put in place via 'apt-mark
hold '.
1:
root@cb-qa-lb-1:~# lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:18.04
2:
root@cb-qa-lb-1:~# apt-cache
I should note that I've also tested this on 16.04.6 and am getting the
same unexpected behaviour.
root@ansible:/var/lib/aptitude# lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release:16.04
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