Improve sharp upgrade experience when libvips is upgraded

[sidharthachatterjee]

Currently upgrading gatsby-plugin-sharp (or rather its dependency sharp) when there is a version change to the underlying libvips dependency is a little problematic because it fails with #16957 unless an npm rebuild is run.

@lovell had some lovely recommendations in lovell/sharp#1680 (comment) on how to tackle this.

We have to some extent in https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby-plugin-sharp/src/safe-sharp.js but it appears that we'll have to handle this corner case as well

CC @pieh

[kuworking]

If working with yarn workspaces, I have

yarn list --pattern sharp
yarn list v1.19.0
├─ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.3.0
├─ gatsby-transformer-sharp@2.3.5
└─ sharp@0.23.2

And gatsby-node with

const sharp = require('sharp')
sharp.cache(false)
sharp.simd(false)

1. Running npm rebuild and/or yarn --force (the equivalent that should work for workspaces?) doesn't allow gatsby build to succeed (after deleting all node_modules)

 [====================----------] 13710/20646 439.4 s 66% Generating image thumbnailsException code=0xc0000005 flags=0x0 at 0x0000000000000000. Access violation - attempting to execute data at address 0x0000000000000000
error Command failed with exit code 3221225477.

2. Running yarn --force with

"resolutions": {
    "sharp": "0.22.1"
  }

doesn't prevent yarn to install sharp 0.23.2, and running with or without the resolutions part doesn't change the build output, identical to the previous one

3. Downgrading to

"gatsby-plugin-sharp": "2.2.14",

creates divergences in the different packages of the workspace

yarn list --pattern sharp
yarn list v1.19.0
├─ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.2.14
│  └─ sharp@0.22.1
├─ gatsby-theme-A@0.1.43
│  └─ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.3.0
├─ gatsby-transformer-sharp@2.3.5
├─ sharp@0.23.3
└─ site@0.1.71
   └─ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.3.0
Done in 0.84s.

So I also downgrade

"gatsby-plugin-manifest": "2.1.1",
"gatsby-transformer-sharp": "2.2.6",

delete node_modules and yarn-lock and run yarn --force again

which gives me

yarn list --pattern sharp
yarn list v1.19.0
├─ gatsby-plugin-sharp@2.2.14
├─ gatsby-transformer-sharp@2.2.6
└─ sharp@0.22.1

and then, build fails with a different message

Error: Cannot find module 'gatsby/dist/utils/create-content-digest'

And now I don't know what else can I try

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