Make pip install faster in Docker build for Complement testing (#9610)

Make pip install faster in Docker build for [Complement](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement) testing.

If files have changed in a `COPY` command, Docker will invalidate all of the layers below. So I changed the order of operations to install all dependencies before we `COPY synapse /synapse/synapse/`. This allows Docker to use our cached layer of dependencies even when we change the source of Synapse and speed up builds dramatically! `53.5s` -> `3.7s` builds 🤘

As an alternative, I did try using BuildKit caches but this still took 30 seconds overall on that step. 15 seconds to gather the dependencies from the cache and another 15 seconds to `Installing collected packages`.

Fix https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9364
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Speed up Docker builds and make it nicer to test against Complement while developing (install all dependencies before copying the project).

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@ -38,30 +38,28 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
zlib1g-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Build dependencies that are not available as wheels, to speed up rebuilds
RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
cryptography \
frozendict \
jaeger-client \
opentracing \
# Match the version constraints of Synapse
"prometheus_client>=0.4.0" \
psycopg2 \
pycparser \
pyrsistent \
pyyaml \
simplejson \
threadloop \
thrift
# now install synapse and all of the python deps to /install.
COPY synapse /synapse/synapse/
# Copy just what we need to pip install
COPY scripts /synapse/scripts/
COPY MANIFEST.in README.rst setup.py synctl /synapse/
COPY synapse/__init__.py /synapse/synapse/__init__.py
COPY synapse/python_dependencies.py /synapse/synapse/python_dependencies.py
# To speed up rebuilds, install all of the dependencies before we copy over
# the whole synapse project so that we this layer in the Docker cache can be
# used while you develop on the source
#
# This is aiming at installing the `install_requires` and `extras_require` from `setup.py`
RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
/synapse[all]
# Copy over the rest of the project
COPY synapse /synapse/synapse/
# Install the synapse package itself and all of its children packages.
#
# This is aiming at installing only the `packages=find_packages(...)` from `setup.py
RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-deps --no-warn-script-location /synapse
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