Pin parser dependency in chef-bin
What does this MR do and why?
This backports !7572 (merged) to 16-9-stable to fix #8532 (closed).
Installing chef-bin via gem install makes all of its dependencies floating,
including the parser gem. Because the parser gem is also used by other
Ruby modules, the floating dependencies can cause failures, such as a recent
problem that caused gitlab-ctl to fail because inspec-core depends on
parser as well. This is a temporary fix to correct the floating dependency
on parser until a more permanent fix is in place.
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