diff --git a/contrib/libreadline/FREEBSD-upgrade b/contrib/libreadline/FREEBSD-upgrade
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a90085e5dc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/libreadline/FREEBSD-upgrade
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+mv doc/readline.3 .
+rm doc/*.dvi doc/*.html doc/*.ps doc/*.0 doc/*.info doc/*.tex doc/texi2*
+rm savestring.c