What were you trying to do that didn't work?

See https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/3616 and reproducer there. We need to backport that to RHEL8 and RHEL9.

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

sos-4.5.2 or newer

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to reproduce

1. # sos report -o host --batch
   ..
   Your sosreport has been generated and saved in:
           /var/tmp/sosreport-pmoravec-rhel8-2024-04-23-dxyytjg.tar.xz
   # rm -f /etc/sos/cleaner/default_mapping
   # sos clean --batch -vv /var/tmp/sosreport-pmoravec-rhel8-2024-04-23-dxyytjg.tar.xz
   ..
   [cleaner:sosreport-pmoravec-rhel8-2024-04-23-dxyytjg] Loaded /var/tmp/sosreport-pmoravec-rhel8-2024-04-23-dxyytjg.tar.xz as type sos report archive
   [cleaner] Pre-loading all archives into obfuscation maps
   [cleaner:sosreport-pmoravec-rhel8-2024-04-23-dxyytjg] Unable to retrieve sos_commands/host/hostname: no such file in archive
   ..
   # 

1. .. and check if/what was cleaned inside the archive (at least hostnames should)
2. .. and check if /etc/sos/cleaner/default_mapping was created with that mapping

Expected results

2. and 3.: at least hosts cleaning applied

Actual results

2. and 3.: no cleaning applied at all