diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips3-n64-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips3-n64-systemd-mu.spec
index 967a8d2f..21c76db0 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips3-n64-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips3-n64-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-mips3_n64-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
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-o32-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-o32-systemd-mu.spec
index 8f141de9..72017ec4 100644
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-o32-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mipsel3-o32-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-mipsel3-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
diff --git a/releases/specs/x86/i486/stage1-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs/x86/i486/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
index 989a2af6..b8c870e8 100644
--- a/releases/specs/x86/i486/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
+++ b/releases/specs/x86/i486/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ profile: default/linux/x86/17.0/systemd/merged-usr
 snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
 source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-i486-systemd-mergedusr-latest
 compression_mode: pixz
-update_seed: no
+update_seed: yes
 update_seed_command: --update --deep --newuse @world
 portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages
 portage_prefix: releng