Ensure all packages install from major release version

[jeff1evesque]

We need to ensure all our packages (npm, pip, yum), are installing packages at major release versions. This approach needs to be implemented on the general build, as well as any .travis.yml implementation, or equivalent.

The following were the motivation for this issue:

• Resolve 'eslint' parsing errors, by defining parser machine-learning#2390
• error Parsing error: Unexpected token < jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react#447 (comment)