diff --git a/releases/specs/ia64/stage1-openrc.spec b/releases/specs/ia64/stage1-openrc.spec
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--- a/releases/specs/ia64/stage1-openrc.spec
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-subarch: ia64
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage1
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/ia64/17.0
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage3-ia64-openrc-latest
-compression_mode: pixz
-update_seed: yes
-update_seed_command: --update --deep --newuse @world
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages
-portage_prefix: releng
diff --git a/releases/specs/ia64/stage3-openrc.spec b/releases/specs/ia64/stage3-openrc.spec
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index 81e2ea75..00000000
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-subarch: ia64
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-target: stage3
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/ia64/17.0
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage1-ia64-openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-compression_mode: pixz
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages
-portage_prefix: releng
-binrepo_path: ia64/binpackages/17.0/ia64