diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec
index 016ea343..42f0dcd2 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-openrc.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian
 snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: default/stage3-aarch64_be-openrc-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/arm64/be/stage1-systemd.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd.spec
index fc43381e..1c175344 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/arm64/be/stage1-systemd.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/big-endian/systemd
 snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: default/stage3-aarch64_be-systemd-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