diff --git a/mx.fastr/mx_fastr_dists.py b/mx.fastr/mx_fastr_dists.py
index ef49421c15a83f52459c287a08e9e4395ba70bf2..9256c41b2a412be1d610fcac52340668403ea595 100644
--- a/mx.fastr/mx_fastr_dists.py
+++ b/mx.fastr/mx_fastr_dists.py
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ def mx_register_dynamic_suite_constituents(register_project, register_distributi
                     "dependency:fastr:GNUR",
                     "file:mx.fastr/GraalCE_R_license_3rd_party_license.txt",
                 ],
+                "README_FASTR": "extracted-dependency:fastr:FASTR_GRAALVM_RELEASE{rffi}/README.md".format(rffi=rffi),
                 "bin/Rscript": "file:com.oracle.truffle.r.release/src/Rscript_legacy",
                 "bin/exec/R": "file:com.oracle.truffle.r.release/src/R_legacy",
                 "R-3.4.0.tar.gz" : "dependency:fastr:GNUR",