diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
index 5f0a76ba..7f75d3d2 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian/systemd/merged-usr
 snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-aarch64_be-systemd-mergedusr-latest
 compression_mode: pixz
-update_seed: no
+update_seed: yes
 update_seed_command: -uDN @world
 portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
 portage_prefix: releng
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-multilib-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
index 5054a7ed..5b4ff756 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-mipsel3_multilib-systemd-mergedusr-latest
 compression_mode: pixz
 decompressor_search_order: xz bzip2
-update_seed: no
+update_seed: yes
 update_seed_command: -uDN @world
 portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
 portage_prefix: releng
diff --git a/releases/specs/hppa/hppa1.1/stage1-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs/hppa/hppa1.1/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
index f4ec0400..8e562762 100644
--- a/releases/specs/hppa/hppa1.1/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs/hppa/hppa1.1/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rel_type: mergedusr
 profile: default/linux/hppa/17.0/systemd/merged-usr
 snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-hppa1.1-systemd-mergedusr-latest
-update_seed: no
+update_seed: yes
 portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages
 portage_prefix: releng
 compression_mode: pixz