diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-openrc.spec
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index b0481b7e..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-openrc.spec
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-subarch: alpha
-target: stage1
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage3-alpha-openrc-latest
-update_seed: yes
-update_seed_command: -uDN @world
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
-compression_mode: pixz
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-openrc.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f3cd873..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-openrc.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-subarch: alpha
-target: stage3
-version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-rel_type: default
-profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: default/stage1-alpha-openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
-compression_mode: pixz
-binrepo_path: alpha/binpackages/17.0/alpha