diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/riscv/stage1-multilib-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/riscv/stage1-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
index ee937b35..297f31d4 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/riscv/stage1-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/riscv/stage1-multilib-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-rv64_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