NetOTA provides a pair of utilities for working with SysOTA repositories.

The repository is stored in $SNAP_COMMON/repository, or /var/snap/netota/common/repository. Upon installation, a sample repository with a single package and several streams is copied there for to illustrate the data structures. The repository should be removed and replaced with a git checkout. Updates to the repository should be performed by pulling changes. This allows working with changes more easily, including reverting faulty updates.

The systemd service snap.netota.netotad.service can be restarted to verify changes to the repository and serve new content. Alternatively, the SIGHUP signal may be sent to the service to achieve in-place replacement without downtime. If the new repository is malformed, old repository is served and an error is logged to the system journal.

The address at which NetOTA listens on is managed by the snap configuration system. By default that is localhost and port 8000.

To use NetOTA without a reverse proxy you must set the IP to listen to to the desired IP (or 0.0.0.0 to listen on all the interfaces). This can be done with

 snap set netota address=...

Please make sure to include the port to listen on as well.