diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec
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index 0775d15d..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec
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-subarch: aarch64_be
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage1
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage3-aarch64_be-openrc-latest
-compression_mode: pixz
-update_seed: yes
-update_seed_command: -uDN @world
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-portage_prefix: releng
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64_be
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
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index 4064e9c1..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-subarch: aarch64_be
-version_stamp: systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage1
-rel_type: mergedusr
-profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian/systemd/merged-usr
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-aarch64_be-systemd-mergedusr-latest
-compression_mode: pixz
-update_seed: yes
-update_seed_command: -uDN @world
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-portage_prefix: releng
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64_be
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-openrc.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 70d152e6..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-openrc.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-subarch: aarch64_be
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage3
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage1-aarch64_be-openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-compression_mode: pixz
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-portage_prefix: releng
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64_be
-binrepo_path: arm64/binpackages/17.0/aarch64_be
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-systemd-mu.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 65e6ffb9..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage3-systemd-mu.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-subarch: aarch64_be
-version_stamp: systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage3
-rel_type: mergedusr
-profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian/systemd/merged-usr
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: mergedusr/stage1-aarch64_be-systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-compression_mode: pixz
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-portage_prefix: releng
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64_be
-binrepo_path: arm64/binpackages/17.0/aarch64_be