hitting limits while creating a unlocked package version

Question

I run the following command

sfdx force:package:version:create -p SFExtension -d force-app -k xxxx --wait 10 -v DevHub

and with my 6th (5 finished successfully) execution I get this error:

ERROR:  The package2 version create request failed because this organization has reached its daily limit.

What limit does block me here? Can I really only build a package 5 times a day?

...this is really frustrating :(

Answer 1

You can query the limits by the following command:

sfdx force:limits:api:display

Run this against your dev hub org, and you'll see a line like this:

NAME                                   REMAINING  MAXIMUM
─────────────────────────────────────  ─────────  ─────────
...
PackageVersionCreates                  50         50

This is the daily limit for the entire org. If you've run out, you'll have to wait until tomorrow.

The limits are different for different types of orgs, so you'll need to check your org's limits.

Edit:

I couldn't find the chart that I've seen before, but it does seem like Developer Edition is limited to 6 packages/day, Enterprise should be 50/day, and Performance/Unlimited should be 200/day.

A developer edition is really not intended to be a real hub, just more of a learning/design/package container. Your dev hub org should be a real (i.e. paid) org.

Answer 2

Since spring 20 its possible create a package without validation and the limits are 500 versions

Answer 3

Two additional remarks to the answers already given, as I stumbled across them myself:

1. API limits do not reset at midnight because they are count in a rolling 24 hour period.
2. The --skipvalidation parameter does not work for org-dependent unlocked packages. It causes the following error: "Can’t create package version. You can’t specify skip validation on an org-dependent unlocked package. Try creating the package version without specifying skip validation."