After switching to these symlinks, you no longer need to create
the missing directories.
See-also: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35350

Install /etc/*-release files if needed.
Reported-by: Ivan A. Melnikov <iv@altlinux.org>

filesystem package has been severely broken in sisyphus
since late August unfortunately, and I was too busy to
even notice that for too long; let's plug this kludge
until it's fixed now that I've finally seen that crap :-/

See-also: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/35350