Build the phone once per run, and stop rebuilding the toolchain image

The android job compiled everything twice. The plain `dotnet build` before the
packaging step looked like a cheap check ahead of an expensive one and was
neither: SignAndroidPackage depends on Build, so the packaging line compiles
everything anyway — and the build above it ran with no -p:DodoChannel, which
means it ran as the *release* channel. Different application id, different
version, different assembly metadata; MSBuild treats a different set of global
properties as a different project instance, so not one output was reused. It was
a full second compile of the reference closure, producing an APK for the one
channel this job must never build, thrown away unread.

Measured in the toolchain image with a warm package volume, same commit:

  two builds   2m52 + 2m26   5m21 total
  one build            3m01   3m04 total

Byte for byte the same artefact out of both — versionCode 203, versionName
0.0.0-alpha.0.136, dev.dodotech.dodossh.nightly.

The toolchain image is now built once per Dockerfile rather than once per run.
The tag is the Dockerfile's own digest and docker applies a tag only on success,
so an existing tag is by construction the right image and `docker image inspect`
is a sound check rather than a guess. What that trades away is the JDK from apt
drifting; everything that decides what is in the image is pinned in the
Dockerfile, so anything that matters changes the digest. It is a build tool, not
something shipped — the image job takes the opposite trade with --pull, because
what it builds is what users run.

And the build job now says whether its package cache did anything. setup-dotnet's
cache: true is actions/cache underneath, which needs a cache server act_runner
ships and can have turned off — and when it is off it does nothing and says
nothing about it. A cold restore and a perfect cache look identical from outside:
both are green, and the difference is minutes. One `find` before anything writes
to the folder turns that from a belief into a line in the log. It does not fail
the build, because a runner without a cache server is slow rather than wrong.

What is deliberately not cached: the apt installs in each job's preamble, which
need the runner's image fixed rather than a workflow change and already say so;
the Testcontainers pulls and the API image's layers, which the daemon already
caches on a persistent runner; and the android obj/bin, which would not help —
the source arrives by `docker cp` with fresh timestamps, so MSBuild rebuilds it
whatever is in there.
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@@ -26,14 +26,37 @@ echo "==> restore"
# Locked mode, the same gate the solution restore gives every other project. This head is not in
# DodoSSH.slnx — it needs a workload the other jobs have no reason to install — so this is the only
# place its lock file is ever checked. It has silently gone stale before.
#
# Restored without a channel and built with one, which is safe and worth one line: the two channel
# PropertyGroups change the application id, the version and some assembly metadata, and none of those
# is in the restore graph. If a channel ever gains a PackageReference of its own, this splits and the
# restore has to move under the same -p: as the build.
#
# Into /root/.nuget/packages, which the job mounts as a named volume — see the workflow. That is the
# whole of this job's package caching and it is what took a run from eight minutes to two and a half.
dotnet restore "$project" --locked-mode
echo "==> build"
dotnet build "$project" \
--no-restore --configuration Release \
"-p:Aapt2ToolPath=$build_tools"
echo "==> package the nightly"
# ◆ ONE BUILD, WHERE THERE WERE TWO, AND THE FIRST WAS NOT A CHECK.
#
# There used to be a plain `dotnet build` above this. It looked like a cheap compile before the
# expensive packaging and it was neither: SignAndroidPackage depends on Build, so this line compiles
# everything anyway, and the build above ran with no -p:DodoChannel — which means it ran as the
# *release* channel. Different ApplicationId, different ApplicationVersion, different assembly
# metadata; MSBuild treats a different set of global properties as a different project instance, so
# not one output was reused. It was a complete second compile of the whole reference closure,
# producing an APK for a channel this job must never build, thrown away unread.
#
# Removing it does not lose a check. Anything that fails in a compile fails in this one, and the
# link-time failures below are the ones only packaging finds.
#
# Measured in the toolchain image with a warm package volume, same commit, same APK out of both:
#
# two builds 2m52 + 2m26 5m21 total
# one build 3m01 3m04 total
#
# versionCode 203, versionName 0.0.0-alpha.0.136, dev.dodotech.dodossh.nightly, either way.
#
# Packaging rather than only compiling, because the two failures this head is most exposed to are both
# link-time: a native library with no android ABI, and a managed assembly that resolves for net10.0 but
# has nothing to dex. Neither shows up in a compile.