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[9.1] [Fleet] Improve installation of bundled packages in airgapped environments (#230992)#231714

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[9.1] [Fleet] Improve installation of bundled packages in airgapped environments (#230992)#231714
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This will backport the following commits from main to 9.1:

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…ments (elastic#230992)

Closes elastic#224954

## Summary

Improve installation of bundled packages in airgapped environments.

- Add a fallback fetch of bundled packages / cached packages when
possible
- Improve error handling when EPR is not available
- Fetch bundled packages as fallback when is possible (regardless of EPR
being available or not)

Approach explained
[here](elastic#224954 (comment))

### Testing steps

Configuration in `kibana.dev.yml`:
```
xpack.fleet:
    isAirGapped: true
    registryUrl: http://not-reachable
    developer.bundledPackageLocation: "/Users/<USERNAME>/Dev/kibana/x-pack/platform/plugins/shared/fleet/target/bundled_packages"
```
Bundled packages (APM, synthetics, etc) need to be present in the above
folder. Download them from EPR

- Put an older version of APM (for instance 7.16) in the folder and
install it going to `app/integrations/apm-7.16/overview`, add it to a
new agent policy. I tested with a policy that doesn't have `system`
installed
- temporarily remove the configs `isAirGapped` and `registryUrl` to be
able to reach the registry and add a newer version of the package to
`bundled_packages` folder (I used apm-8.2.0)
- To trigger the package upgrade, go to
`app/integrations/apm-8.2.0/overview`
- Put back the configs in `kibana.dev.yml` and now upgrade the package
and the policies
-  The upgrade should work properly and the policy revision is aligned
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/>

**NOTE**: When I tested with a policy that has also other packages
installed (like system), the policy recompile still fails with a
connection error. I'm not quite sure how to solve this, since Fleet
needs to reach EPR to fetch the packages that are not bundled.

### Checklist

Check the PR satisfies following conditions.

- [ ]
[Documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-documentation.html)
was added for features that require explanation or tutorials
- [ ] [Unit or functional
tests](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-tests.html)
were updated or added to match the most common scenarios

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Co-authored-by: Elastic Machine <elasticmachine@users.noreply.github.com>
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