fix(ci): build through the internal package cache; keep bundled npm on Node 18/20

- The first Node 24/26 run timed out on every job: public AlmaLinux mirrors
  served the runners at 1-150 kB/s. Use the CT130 package cache the same way
  cloud-apache-container does (same pkg-cache-repos.sh and pinned CA), with
  the upstream repos as fallback when the probe fails. epel-release is now
  GPG-verified before install instead of fetched unverified by URL.
- npm 12 requires Node >=22.22.2; on 18/20 keep the npm Node ships with.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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